Am J Psychiatry 1988; 145:1280-1284
Copyright © 1988 by American Psychiatric Association
Evaluation of diagnostic criteria for borderline personality disorder
HG Nurnberg, SW Hurt, A Feldman and R Suh
Department of Psychiatry, Queens Hospital Center, Jamaica, NY 11432.
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.
