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	Institution: CLOCKSS  | My Account | E-mail Alerts | Access Rights | Sign In Vol. 4 No. 3, March 1995   Archives  •  Online Features Editorials  This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal Mental Diagnoses in Primary Care The Next Generation Frank deGruy, MD, MSFM Arch Fam Med. 1995;4(3):208-210. Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings. THIS ISSUE of the Archives contains the first published description of the Symptom-Driven Diagnostic System for Primary Care (SDDS-PC) (The Upjohn Co, Kalamazoo, Mich), a two-stage instrument for screening and then diagnosing multiple mental disorders in primary care settings.1,2 This is a signal achievement and deserves comment. The SDDS-PC appears in a field—mental health in primary care—that is alive with fresh developments. This also deserves comment. First, a few remarks about the instrument and its validation are in order. This instrument is simple to use, but that should not obscure its complex and sophisticated nature or the elegance with which this difficult multisite validation study was accomplished. As an instrument, the SDDS-PC overcomes several of the most daunting obstacles that primary care researchers and clinicians have faced when dealing with mental symptoms: it is fast and easy and its multimodularity can handle the problem of psychiatric comorbidity. Even so . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article] Author Affiliations University of South Alabama College of Medicine Mobile HOME | CURRENT ISSUE | PAST ISSUES | TOPIC COLLECTIONS | CME | PHYSICIAN JOBS | HELP CONDITIONS OF USE | PRIVACY POLICY | CONTACT US | SITE MAP   © 1995 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved.