The APA has rejected this call: «There is, in fact, no outside organisation that has the capacity to replicate the range of expertise that DSM - 5 has assembled over the past decade to
review diagnostic criteria,» replied APA president John Oldham.
The Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology
review notes that the tentative definition of IGD in the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM - 5) is a good starting point for diagnosing the condition, with the most stringent
criteria including a build - up of tolerance (more time needs to be spent playing computer games), loss of control, giving up other interests, and excessive use despite clear - cut psychosocial and health - related problems.
However, when 50 children were evaluated with the Autism
Diagnostic Interview — Revised 35 and the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule — Generic, 36 94 % met criteria for ASD on both instruments, and 100 % met criteria on at least 1 instrument.37 Record - review validation studies conducted by the investigators demonstrate that the predictors of valid ASD diagnoses were having more than 2 diagnoses in the medical record.38 Most influenza infections in our study were determined from International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification diagnostic codes rather than serologic
Diagnostic Interview — Revised 35 and the Autism
Diagnostic Observation Schedule — Generic, 36 94 % met criteria for ASD on both instruments, and 100 % met criteria on at least 1 instrument.37 Record - review validation studies conducted by the investigators demonstrate that the predictors of valid ASD diagnoses were having more than 2 diagnoses in the medical record.38 Most influenza infections in our study were determined from International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification diagnostic codes rather than serologic
Diagnostic Observation Schedule — Generic, 36 94 % met
criteria for ASD on both instruments, and 100 % met
criteria on at least 1 instrument.37 Record -
review validation studies conducted by the investigators demonstrate that the predictors of valid ASD diagnoses were having more than 2 diagnoses in the medical record.38 Most influenza infections in our study were determined from International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification
diagnostic codes rather than serologic
diagnostic codes rather than serologic evidence.
It will also «
review the utility and objectiveness of the
criteria in the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM - IV) and will comment on the validity of current screening instruments and their predictive capacity for accurate diagnoses.»