I read with great interest the article "Sta-bility of psychiatric diagnosis (R. Ray and J. Roy Chowdhury, Indian Journal of Psychiatry , 26(2): 164-168, 1984). I have some doubts regarding the above article in which the total number of patients in Table 1,2 & 3 does not tally with the description of total sample. Also, the exact percentages in Table 2 and 3 should be corrected and given. Inform...

In their preface to the fourth edition of Psychiatric Diagnosis, authors Goodwin and Guze are clear on the limitations of their work: there is little "theory" or "speculation" nor any unproved claims in this review of a dozen psychiatric diagnoses. While this approach leaves a straightforward and complete compendium of current knowledge, it also handicaps the work. Like other texts, it provides...

Eighty five charts of patients whose diagnoses have changed at least once between 1977 and 1981 (unstable) were compared with another randomly chosen charts where diagnosis during the subsequent admissions remained unchanged (stable). Seventy six percent of the changes occurred from one to the other diagnostic category and remained so. Seventy three percent of Schizophrenics, 77.5% of Manics, 4...

the high comorbidity of medical and psychiatric diagnoses in the general hospital population requires collaboration between various medical fields to provide comprehensive health care. this study aims to find the rate of psychiatric consultations, their timing and overall diagnostic trend in comparison to previous studies. tehran university of medical sciences has got an active psychiatric cons...

Evidence suggests that patients with psychiatric illnesses may be more likely to experience a delay in diagnosis of coexisting cancer. The association between psychiatric illness and timely diagnosis and survival in patients with esophageal cancer has not been studied. The specific aim of this retrospective cohort study was to determine the impact of coexisting psychiatric illness on time to di...

Introduction: Alexander disease is a heterogenous group of diseases with various manifestations based on age of disease onset. This rare leukodystrophy syndrome with mutations in GFAP Gene could present with developmental delay and seizure in infantile form to ataxia and bulbar palsy in adulthood. However psychiatric symptoms are not well-defined and usually evaluate after disease diagnosis not...