Some Clinical Diagnoses are More Reliable than Others

The purpose of the present study was to facilitate understanding of the nature of mental disorder diagnoses by examining the extent to which the degree of diagnostic specificity i.e., group, type, or subtype and the social context i.e., certain circumstances under which diagnoses take place affect diagnostic agreement the reliability of measures across time. Also, the present study investigated the transformative nature of certain mental disorder diagnoses i.e., how some mental disorder diagnoses change by their very nature by tracking classifications both into and out of particular diagnostic categories. Keywords Psychiatry Diagnosis medicine.