A comparison of 17 narrowly defined borderline patients with 20
nonpatient control subjects indicated that certain individual and
combinations of criteria may be more highly correlated with the disorder
than others. Requiring any four or certain specific combinations of two or
three of the five most discriminating criteria provided the optimal balance
of sensitivity, specificity, predictive power, and diagnostic efficiency
considerations. Fewer than five DSM- III-R criteria adequately identified
the patients.
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