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Two diagnostic interviews, the Schedule for Affective Disorders and schizophrenia (lifetime version) (SADS-LA) and the Schedule for the Clinical Assessment of Neuropsychiatry (SCAN) were compared for main diagnoses and for their acceptibility to psychotic subjects and their psychiatrically well relatives. Broad agreement for DSM-III, DSM-III-R and draft ICD-10 diagnoses was good, although there were areas of disagreement between the two interviews which are discussed.
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Farmer, A., Cosyns, P., Leboyer, M. et al. A SCAN-SADS comparison study of psychotic subjects and their first-degree relatives. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Nuerosci 242, 352–356 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02190248
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02190248