Classification of Eating Disorders
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Classification and Diagnosis of the Eating Disorders
I n the field of medicine the value of classification and diagnosis of diseases is generally unquestioned. Classification is the process whereby complex clinical phenomena are reduced to defined categories for the purpose of treatment and prevention, while diagnosis is the assignment of the patient's clinical features (eg, constrictive chest pain occurring on exertion in a 50-year-old man with ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0706-7437,1497-0015
DOI: 10.1177/070674379504000802