Abstract
DIAGNO II, a computer program for psychiatric diagnosis, is based on a logical decision tree model similar to the differential diagnostic process used in clinical medicine. In the validity study reported here, the program yielded diagnoses for 100 patients which agreed with diagnoses supplied by clinicians as well as did the diagnoses supplied by different clinicians on the same cases.
Keywords
Medical diagnosisPsychiatric diagnosisMedicinePsychiatryComputer programPsychologyComputer sciencePathologySchizophrenia (object-oriented programming)
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- 1969
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- article
- Volume
- 125
- Issue
- 7S
- Pages
- 12-21
- Citations
- 176
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Robert L. Spitzer,
Jean Endicott
(1969).
DIAGNO II: Further Developments in a Computer Program for Psychiatric Diagnosis.
American Journal of Psychiatry
, 125
(7S)
, 12-21.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.7s.12
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- 10.1176/ajp.125.7s.12