Concurrent validity of the OPCRIT diagnostic system. Comparison of OPCRIT diagnoses with consensus best-estimate lifetime diagnoses

Craddock, Nicholas John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2171-0610, Asherson, P., Owen, Michael John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4798-0862, Williams, J., McGuffin, P. and Farmer, A. E. 1996. Concurrent validity of the OPCRIT diagnostic system. Comparison of OPCRIT diagnoses with consensus best-estimate lifetime diagnoses. British Journal of Psychiatry 169 (1) , pp. 58-63. 10.1192/bjp.169.1.58

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Abstract

BACKGROUND OPCRIT (a suite of computer programs that allow data entry and generate diagnoses according to 12 operational diagnostic systems) is used in a wide range of psychiatric research including both European Science Foundation and NIMH research initiatives in the molecular genetics of mental disorders. We examined its concurrent validity in 100 subjects collected for linkage studies of Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia. METHOD We compared diagnoses generated by OPCRIT from data rated by two trained clinicians with diagnoses made according to consensus, best-estimate, lifetime procedures by the same two raters according to DSM-III-R and RDC classifications. RESULTS Good to excellent agreement was achieved between OPCRIT diagnoses and those made by consensus best-estimate procedures. CONCLUSIONS OPCRIT provides a convenient, reliable, rapid and valid approach to polydiagnostic assessment that can be used as an adjunct to conventional (but time consulting) best-estimate consensus diagnostic procedures.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG) Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute (NMHRI)
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RZ Other systems of medicine
Publisher:	Royal College of Psychiatrists
ISSN:	0007-1250
Last Modified:	27 Oct 2022 09:50
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/67944

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