Use of ICD-10 research diagnostic criteria to categorise psychiatric and behavioural abnormalities among people with learning disabilities: the West Midlands field trial.

By: Clarke, David J. (et al).
Series: Mental Handicap Research 7 (4) 1994: 273-285. 1994Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume Subject(s): BEHAVIOUR PROBLEMS | DIAGNOSIS | INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY | PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS | RESEARCHSummary: ICD-10 diagnostic criteria for research (DCR) based on the clinical descriptions and diagnostic guidelines for mental and behavioural disorders were used to assign diagnoses to 38 people with mental retardation who had additional behavioural or psychiatric disorders. Problems were encountered with criteria for schizophrenia and related disorders.Reccomendations were made regarding some diagnostic criteria, methods of coding diagnoses and the need for additional guidence when classifying disorders associated with mental retardation.
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ICD-10 diagnostic criteria for research (DCR) based on the clinical descriptions and diagnostic guidelines for mental and behavioural disorders were used to assign diagnoses to 38 people with mental retardation who had additional behavioural or psychiatric disorders. Problems were encountered with criteria for schizophrenia and related disorders.Reccomendations were made regarding some diagnostic criteria, methods of coding diagnoses and the need for additional guidence when classifying disorders associated with mental retardation.

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