QUANTIFICATION OF THE SEVERITY OF OVERT PSYCHOTIC SYMPTOMS
Abstract
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.
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