DIAGNO II: Further Developments in a Computer Program for Psychiatric Diagnosis
ROBERT L. SPITZER M.D.1, and
JEAN ENDICOTT PH.D.2
1 Director, evaluation unit, Biometrics Research, New York State Department of Mental Hygiene at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, 722 W. 168th St., New York, N. Y. 10032
2 Associate research scientist, Biometrics Research, New York State Department of Mental Hygiene at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, 722 W. 168th St., New York, N. Y. 10032
DIAGNO II, a computer program for psychiatric diagnosis, is based on a logical decision tree model similar to the differential diagnostic process used in clinical medicine. In the validity study reported here, the program yielded diagnoses for 100 patients which agreed with diagnoses supplied by clinicians as well as did the diagnoses supplied by different clinicians on the same cases.
