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R Berry

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PubMed1979

Reliability and descriptive validity of PSE syndromes.

Despite extensive research use of the Present State Examination (PSE), the validity of classification based on PSE data has not been studied extensively. We have examined a consecutive series of functional psychiatric admissions using the PSE and systematically gathered clinical and demographic data in order to study not only the reliability but the descriptive (construct) validity of classification based on PSE data. We have found that the PSE can be used in a psychiatric hospital to reliably describe and classify schizophrenic and affective syndromes with considerable descriptive validity in terms of clinical and demographic variables. We believe that this type of validity is an important step in establishing validity of clinical disease entities. The interrelationship among different kinds of validity (descriptive, concurrent, predictive) might provide clinical disease concepts with more definitive validity.

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PubMed1978

Modification of the American Burn Association injury severity grading system.

This study evaluated the regional burn health care system of the Commonwealth of Virginia using the criteria for optimal care of the burn patient designated by the American Burn Association. The data base for this evaluation was hospital records of seven hospitals in Virginia. The major shortcoming of the designated criteria was the grading system for the severity of burn injury. Using the criteria designated by the American Burn Association, a large number of minor burn injuries were judged erroneously to be major burn injuries. A modification of the American Burn Association's injury severity grading system is proposed which more precisely identifies the minor burn injury.

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PubMed1974

An easy way to die.

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