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The incidence of schizophrenia in New South Wales, Australia
Author(s) -
Goldstein G.,
Hall W.,
Andrews G.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1984.tb01201.x
Subject(s) - schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , incidence (geometry) , psychiatry , medicine , diagnosis of schizophrenia , demography , psychosis , physics , sociology , optics
– Age‐specific estimaies of the incidence of schizophrenia in NSW, Australia, have been made using two methods, one based on a psychiatric register and the other based on routinely collected hospital morbidity data. Similar results were obtained by both methods. The estimates lie towards the bottom of the range of incidence estimates of schizophrenia that have been published for some other countries, and are lower than estimates from a number of U.S. studies. The diagnostic criteria of schizophrenia employed by Australian psychiatrists conform closely to DSM‐III criteria.