ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the results of our outcome study to discover whether any of the features of the selection criteria could be used to predict outcome in schizophrenia and affective disorders. It analyzes outcome according to admission variables coded from the original medical records. The psychiatric medical charts for the 200 schizophrenic patients in the Iowa 500 project were reviewed by three psychiatrists beginning in 1971 to code systematically admission, family history, and chart follow-up data. Enough information was available at follow-up to rate 186 schizophrenic patients for outcome under all four outcome categories: marital, residential, psychiatric, and occupational. In the absence of reliable neuropsychological tests for the patients at admission, a future study of the psychopathology of memory deficit in our schizophrenics should contrast memory-deficit subjects with control subjects, matched for age and sex, who are without memory deficit at admission.
