TY - JOUR
T1 - Computer-Assisted Psychiatric Diagnosis
AU - Kobak, Kenneth
AU - Townsend, Lisa
AU - Birmaher, Boris
AU - Milham, Michael
AU - Kaufman, Joan
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Department of Health and Human Services, under Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant R44 MH094092 (Drs. Kobak and Kaufman) and the Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund (Dr. Kaufman).Disclosure: Dr. Kobak has a proprietary financial interest in the computer-administered KSADS (KSADS-COMP, LLC). Dr. Townsend's spouse has received research support, acted as a consultant, and/or served on a speaker's bureau for Aevi, Akili, Alcobra, Allergan, Amerex, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, American Psychiatric Press, Arbor, Bracket, Daiichi-Sankyo, Epharma Solutions, Forest, Genentech, Insys, Ironshore, KemPharm, Lundbeck, Merck, NIH, Neurim, Noven, Nuvelution, Otsuka, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, Pfizer, Physicians Postgraduate Press, Roche, Sage, Shire (a Takeda Company), Sunovion, Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Syneurx, Teva, TouchPoint, Tris, and Validus, in the past 36 months. Dr. Birmaher has received funding from NIMH for research grants and has received royalties for book chapters. Dr. Milham has received grant funding from NIH. Dr. Kaufman has received grant funding from NIH, has served as a consultant for Pfizer and Otsuka Pharmaceuticals, and has a proprietary financial interest in the computer-administered KSADS (KSADS-COMP, LLC).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
PY - 2020/2
Y1 - 2020/2
N2 - Accurate psychiatric diagnosis is critical for both sound clinical interventions and valid research methodology. Over the years, attempts to improve diagnostic reliability and accuracy led to the development of more explicit operationalized diagnostic criteria, starting with DSM-III, and subsequently fully structured and semistructured diagnostic interviews.1 As diagnostic assessment changed and with advances in technology, the use of computers soon developed in parallel to improve the reliability and validity of psychiatric diagnosis. As far back as 1968, computers were used to help clinicians formulate psychiatric diagnoses, by helping them process clinical information according to diagnostic algorithms.2 Since that time, there has been an exponential rise in the use of technology in clinical research and practice. Indeed, computers have been used both to transition diagnostic interviews from paper-and-pencil format to instruments that are clinician-administered via an electronic platform and to create self-report versions of clinician-administered diagnostic interviews. We will discuss each of these in turn.
AB - Accurate psychiatric diagnosis is critical for both sound clinical interventions and valid research methodology. Over the years, attempts to improve diagnostic reliability and accuracy led to the development of more explicit operationalized diagnostic criteria, starting with DSM-III, and subsequently fully structured and semistructured diagnostic interviews.1 As diagnostic assessment changed and with advances in technology, the use of computers soon developed in parallel to improve the reliability and validity of psychiatric diagnosis. As far back as 1968, computers were used to help clinicians formulate psychiatric diagnoses, by helping them process clinical information according to diagnostic algorithms.2 Since that time, there has been an exponential rise in the use of technology in clinical research and practice. Indeed, computers have been used both to transition diagnostic interviews from paper-and-pencil format to instruments that are clinician-administered via an electronic platform and to create self-report versions of clinician-administered diagnostic interviews. We will discuss each of these in turn.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jaac.2019.04.021
DO - 10.1016/j.jaac.2019.04.021
M3 - Editorial
C2 - 32039771
AN - SCOPUS:85078069901
VL - 59
SP - 213
EP - 215
JO - Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry
JF - Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry
SN - 0890-8567
IS - 2
ER -