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  • Title: Diagnostic concordance in primary care somatization disorder.
    Author: Brown FW, Smith GR.
    Journal: Psychosomatics; 1991; 32(2):191-5. PubMed ID: 2027942.
    Abstract:
    A sample of 196 primary care patients with multiple unexplained complaints was used to examine diagnostic concordance between the Feighner criteria, the Research Diagnostic Criteria, DSM-III criteria, and DSM-III-R criteria for somatization disorder. The DSM-III-R diagnostic criteria for somatization disorder maintain a high concordance with the DSM-III criteria for somatization disorder (Kappa = 0.91), a moderate concordance with the Feighner criteria (Kappa = 0.66), but only a fair concordance with the Research Diagnostic Criteria (Kappa = 0.47). These results provide further evidence that DSM-III-R describes a slightly different sample of somatization disorder patients than does the Feighner and Research Diagnostic Criteria.
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