The physician questionnaire: A useful tool in psychiatric drug research

Predictors of chlordiazepoxide response in anxiety

“…These items included 7 point scale ratings of 5 emotional and 5 somatic symptoms. 9 The actual range of change scores obtained ranged from -2 to +4 with positive scores indicative of improvement and negative scores indicative of worsening.…”

Methylphenidate in mildly depressed outpatients

“…Of particular interest were several significant drug x population interaction effects, indicating that methylphenidate produced significantly more symptomatic improvement than placebo in depressed, general practice patients but not in depressed, private psychiatric patients. These findings were observed after 2 as well as 4 weeks of treatment in the Zung scale (a patient-rated depression inventory), 8 the Physician Questionnaire (a physician rating of psychopathology), 6 and in several global improvement measures.…”

Prognostic Indicators of 4-Week Clinical Improvement with Chlordiazepoxide and Hydroxyzine in Anxious Neurotic Outpatients

“…As potential regres sors for the analysis, we chose 32 demographic, treatment expectation, doctor attitude, and psychopathology variables, including the 10 items of our 'physician questionnaire' (3). A global improvement rating of the patient's clinical symptomatic change after 4 weeks of treatment, recorded on a 5-point scale ranging from unimproved (quoted 1) to markedly improved (quoted 5) was used as outcome criterion.…”