A. J. Gourlay

TL;DR: A standardized, semi-structured interview for examining and recording the mental state in elderly subjects is described, which allows the classification of patients by symptom profile and can demonstrate changes in that profile over time.

TL;DR: The overall pattern of diagnostic differences between the American and British raters indicates that the American concept of schizophrenia is much broader than the British concept, embracing not only part of what in Britain would be regarded as depressive illness, but also substantial parts of several other diagnostic categories—manic illness, neurotic illness, and personality disorder.

TL;DR: This shows that with proper training, non-psychiatric interviewers can achieve standards of inter-rater reliability that are comparable to those previously reported between psychiatrists.

TL;DR: Some 200 psychiatrists at seven different centres in the British Isles made diagnoses and ratings of symptoms and behaviour (using Lorr's IMPS) on three video-tapes of psychiatric interviews, and there was quite good diagnostic agreement between the psychiatrists when grouped by their place of training.

TL;DR: The original aim of the U.S./U.K. Diagnostic Project, founded in 1965, was to examine differences in the national statistics for the diagnostic frequencies among patients admitted to state mental hospitals in the United States of America and to area psychiatric hospitals in England and Wales.