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Mental Diagnoses in Primary CareThe Next Generation
Frank deGruy, MD, MSFM
Arch Fam Med. 1995;4(3):208-210.
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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
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Author Affiliations
University of South Alabama College of Medicine Mobile
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