TY  - JOUR
T1  - REsearch diagnostic criteria-reply
AU  - Overall JE, Hollister LE
Y1  - 1979/11/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpsyc.1979.01780120112014
JO  - Archives of General Psychiatry
SP  - 1382
EP  - 1383
VL  - 36
IS  - 12
N2  - In Reply.— 
    If our article was "troubling", then it probably served its purpose. Unfortunately, the various diagnostic criteria are being widely and uncritically adopted without adequate validation. Our article was not intended as a criticism of any particular approach to operationalizing diagnostic criteria. It was intended merely to emphasize the need for empirical evaluation and validation of whatever approach is ultimately accepted.The rebuttal by Spitzer and colleagues states that the purpose of the Washington University criteria, the New York criteria, and the DSM-III criteria is to improve clinical practice by incorporating into diagnostic criteria distinctions that have been shown "by research study" to have some validity in terms of such variables as course, response to specific therapy, familial pattern, etc. Instead of repeating the oft-stated research claims, would it not be more convincing to document them? Dr Spitzer obviously recognizes the critical difference that specific wording of diagnostic criteria can
SN  - 0003-990X
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpsyc.1979.01780120112014
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1979.01780120112014
ER  -