A Review of a Standardised Mental State Examination and Computer Assisted Psychiatric Diagnoses for use in Research with the Community Elderly.

doi:10.4324/9781032709949-6

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A Review of a Standardised Mental State Examination and Computer Assisted Psychiatric Diagnoses for use in Research with the Community Elderly.

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this paper is to briefly outline the development of the Geriatic Mental State Examination (GMS) and its associated computer assisted diagnostic system, the Automated Geriatic Examination for Computer Assisted Taxonomy (AGECAT).