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For DSM-V, It’s the "Disorder Threshold," Stupid

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Kessler et al1 err in stating that " . . . the Regier-proposed restriction of cases in DSM-V is an attempt to declare that mild cases do not exist."1(p1118) Our earlier article had nothing to do with DSM-V; rather, we merely presented a method for updating DSM-III and DSM-III-R prevalence rates by applying previously unused information embedded in the Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study and National Comorbidity Survey data sets to recalculate rates of more stringently defined DSM-IV disorders.2 We applied to the scoring algorithms for an entire syndrome or diagnosis those rules contained in the original Diagnostic Interview Schedule and Composite International Diagnostic Interview assessment instruments that were used to assess the "clinical significance" of reported symptoms in the Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study and National Comorbidity Survey. We did not, as these authors assert, require service use in the past 12 months. If our approach to assessing the clinical significance of syndromes is . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Darrel A. Regier, MD, MPH; William E. Narrow, MD, MPH; Donald S. Rae, MA



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