QUANTIFICATION OF THE SEVERITY OF OVERT PSYCHOTIC SYMPTOMS
D. WELLS GOODRICH M. D.1
1 Psychiatrist, Research Grants & Fellowships Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
A new psychiatric research rating scale for use by hospital psychiatrists in expressing quantitatively the severity of a patient's incapacitation due to psychotic symptoms is presented. Criteria for designing such a scale are briefly discussed. The advantage of such an instrument lies in the fact that in this way quantitative values are obtained which may then be statistically compared with other research data.
