2002/03/01 by Michael B. First, Harold Alan Pincus · 3 citations
Psychology · Arts and Humanities · Medicine · #Personality Disorders and Psychopathology #Mental Health and Psychiatry #Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
paper · doi:10.1176/appi.ps.53.3.288
openalex publication_date 2002/03/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/02
One consequence of the longer interval between major revisions of the DSM(from seven years between DSM-III-R and DSM-IV to more than 15 years between DSM-IV and DSM-V) is that the accompanying descriptive text will become increasingly out of step with the psychiatric database. To remedy this problem, the DSM-IV Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) was published in July 2000. The main objectives of the revision were to review the DSM-IV text and make changes to reflect information newly available since the close of the initial DSM-IV literature review process in mid-1992; to correct errors and ambiguities that have been identified in DSM-IV; and to update the diagnostic codes to reflect changes in the ICD-9-CM coding system the U.S. government uses officially for health care reporting. This paper reviews the rationale for the text revision and describes changes that may have an impact on the day-to-day use of DSM-IV.