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A comparison of three measures for the diagnosis of borderline personality disorder [published erratum appears in Am J Psychiatry 1989 Aug;146(8):1089]

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.145.11.1453

Three instruments for diagnosing borderline personality disorder were administered to 22 outpatients. There was poor concordance among the indexes for the identification of the disorder, and more than half of the sample received more than two DSM-III axis II diagnoses.

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