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Quantification of Psychiatric Mental StatusFor Use With Psychotic Patients
LAWRENCE H. ROCKLAND, MD;
WILLIAM POLLIN, MD
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1965;12(1):23-28.
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The purpose of this paper is to present a new scale—the RP scale—for use in the quantification of mental status data from psychotic patients. Many similar scales are available, such as the Lorr et al Multidimensional Scale for Rating Psychiatric Patients (MSRPP), the Goodrich Quantification of Psychotic Symptom Severity (QPSS), the Malamud and Sands Psychiatric Rating Scale, and others.1-7 However, none of those examined satisfactorily met all the requirements of the multidisciplinary studies in which the authors were engaged. We therefore attempted to construct a scale that (a) could be used repeatedly by psychiatrists after brief (30-60 minute) interviews, (b) provided a quantified profile which was an accurate reflection of clinical judgment and impressions, (c) was so arranged that it could be easily processed by computors, and correlated with data from other disciplines (psychology, biochemistry, neurophysiology), and (d) focused on the degree and nature
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Author Affiliations
WASHINGTON, DC; BETHESDA, MD
Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Georgetown University School of Medicine (Dr. Rockland) and Chief, Section on Twin and Sibling Studies, Adult Psychiatry Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (Dr. Pollin).
Footnotes
Submitted for publication April 30, 1964.
We obtained help in constructing some of our continua from the Adult Psychiatric Information Sheets, Section I, of the Lafayette Clinic, Detroit, Mich.6
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