Diagnosis of psychiatric disorder in eld
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Dr. David Ames; Eleanor Flynn; Virginia Tuckwell; Susan Harrigan
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Article
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1994
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Physically ill elderly patients (__N__= 236) in a geriatric and a general hospital were interviewed with the Geriatric Mental State (GMS) schedule. Psychiatric diagnoses made by the computer programme βAGECATβ were compared with those made by a psychiatrist who applied DSMβIIIβR diagnos