OPCRIT+: an electronic system for psychiatric diagnosis and data collection in clinical and research settings

2011/07/31 by James Rucker, Stuart Newman, Joanna Gray +13 · 62 citations
Medicine · Psychology · #Data collection #Data collection system #Digital Mental Health Interventions #Inter-rater reliability #Kappa #Medical diagnosis #Medical physics #Medicine #Pathology #Personality Disorders and Psychopathology #Psychiatry #Psychology #Rating scale #Reliability (semiconductor) #Sample (material) #Sample size determination #Schizophrenia research and treatment #Statistics

paper · pdf · doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.110.082925

published in The British Journal of Psychiatry 199(2), 151-155 (Cambridge University Press)

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: The increasingly large sample size requirements of modern adult mental health research suggests the need for a data collection and diagnostic application that can be used across a broad range of clinical and research populations. Aims To develop a data collection and diagnostic application that can be used across a broad range of clinical and research settings. METHOD: We expanded and redeveloped the OPCRIT system into a broadly applicable diagnostic and data-collection package and carried out an interrater reliability study of this new tool. RESULTS: OPCRIT+ performed well in an interrater reliability study with relatively inexperienced clinicians, giving a combined, weighted kappa of 0.70 for diagnostic reliability. CONCLUSIONS: OPCRIT+ showed good overall interrater reliability scores for diagnoses. It is now incorporated in the electronic patient record of the Maudsley and associated hospitals. OPCRIT+ can be downloaded free of charge at http://sgdp.iop.kcl.ac.uk/opcritplus.

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