DIAGNOSTIC CONSISTENCY IN A PSYCHIATRIC LIAISON SERVICE
MURRAY S WILSON M.D.1, and
EUGENE MEYER M.D.2
1 National Defense Medical Center, Ottawa, Canada.
2 The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md.
This report suggests that there are gross constellations of mental disorder psychiatrists routinely identify with consistency, using the current standard psychiatric nomenclature. Striking similarity in the frequency with which diagnostic categories occurred during two successive years in a psychiatric liaison service are cited as evidence.
