Logic For Ordering Diagnostic Tests To Assist Clinicians Investigate Patients With First Episode Schizophrenia

Main Category: Schizophrenia
Also Included In: Psychology / Psychiatry
Article Date: 09 Feb 2009 - 3:00 PDT

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This conceptual review comprehensively presents the logic for ordering diagnostic tests to help clinicians investigate patients with first episode schizophrenia.

Although first-episode schizophrenia has become the focus of much clinical attention, there is still no agreed standard for a thorough medical diagnostic assessment.

The authors argue that the most comprehensive diagnostic tests do not necessarily provide the best results, as indiscriminate screening can result in too many false-positives.

Local considerations and individual-specifi c attributes are most important considerations in selecting the most appropriate test to aid diagnosis.

"Initial medical work-up of first-episode psychosis. A conceptual review"
Oliver Freudenreich, S. Charles Schulz and Donald C. Goff
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Early Intervention in Psychiatry. DOI 10.1111/j.1751-7893.2008.00105.x

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