Inpatient diagnostic assessments: 1. Accuracy of structured vs. unstructured interviews

Impact of Addiction Severity and Psychiatric Comorbidity on the Quality of Life of Alcohol-, Drug- and Dual-Dependent Persons in Residential Treatment

“…This discrepancy might reflect an important difference in the methodological approach to measure psychiatric comorbidity: clinician-based diagnoses in the study of Garg et al [39], versus structured interviews and self-report questionnaires in the present study. Overall, agreement exists that diagnostic accuracy can be enhanced by using structured interview methods [60]. …”

Psychiatric status of asylum seeker families held for a protracted period in a remote detention centre in Australia

“…30 The SCID-IV is a widely employed clinician-administered psychiatric diagnostic instrument with substantial evidence to support its validity, inter-rater and test retest reliability. [31][32][33] As with the K-SADS-PL, the SCID was administered to assess both current disorders and disorders prior to arrival in Australia.…”

Convergent and divergent validity of K-SADS-PL anxiety and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder diagnoses in a clinical sample of school-aged children

“…However, diagnostic decisions reached by clinical impressions or clinical interviews are often unreliable and typically differ significantly from those reached by way of systematic assessment (15,16). Consensual validity of ADHD has been demonstrated in several studies (e.g., 12, 13) but findings regarding the validity of anxiety diagnoses are less consistent (14,17).…”