SCID is a semi-structured diagnostic interview designed to allow clinicians and researchers to make reliable DSM-IV psychiatric diagnoses.
They do not make reliable history.
They struggle to make reliable commitments and to have reliable commitments made to them.
However, these assumptions should be tested to make reliable statements.
Still, the long follow-up and reliable diagnoses give the study considerable strength.
The efforts made by the breeding clubs to improve the longevity with the help of genetic tests and breeding value estimations are impeded by insufficiently reliable diagnoses regarding the cause of death.
Specific features of systematic health surveys including physical examinations at the workplace have been discussed in an earlier study (Fine et al. 1986) which found that this method was more sensitive and reliable in making diagnoses than standardised questionnaires.
We have developed a comprehensive and reliable questionnaire for history taking relevant to making FASD diagnoses in Aboriginal communities.
This is supposed to make diagnoses more reliable: a laudable aim.
might lead even headache experts to making wrong diagnoses.
