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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 125, No. 3

Articles | September 01, 1968

UPDATE: A Computer Program for Converting Diagnoses to the New Nomenclature of the American Psychiatric Association

ROBERT L. SPITZER; LORETTA M. GILFORD

Am J Psychiatry 1968;125:395-396.

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Director, evaluation unit, biometrics research, New York State Department of Mental Hygiene at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, 722 West 168th St., New York, N. Y. 10032

Senior computer programmer, biometrics research, New York State Department of Mental Hygiene at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, 722 West 168th St., New York, N. Y. 10032

1968-69, American Psychiatric Association

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A computer program to convert automated hospital and patient records from DSM-I diagnostic categories to those used in DSM-II has been developed; program listings are available on request from the authors. Since some diagnostic categories are not directly convertible, the methods used to surmount particular problems are explained.

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