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The Relationship Between Clinical Diagnosis and Anxiety, Assessed by Forearm Blood Flow and Other Measurements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

D. H. W. Kelly  and
C. J. S. Walter
D. H. W. Kelly
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, St. Thomas' Hospital, London, S.E.1
C. J. S. Walter
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, St. Thomas' Hospital, London, S.E.1
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Anxiety may be present to a greater or lesser degree in almost every psychiatric syndrome. The ability to quantify the degree of anxiety present in an individual patient has important implications for diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. Accurate clinical assessment of anxiety is by no means an easy task, although many psychiatrists believe it to be. If no other methods are used, there is no way of knowing how often an individual clinician is right or wrong. However, if several independent methods of assessing anxiety are used, more data are available, and a better overall judgment on an individual patient can be made.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 114 , Issue 510 , May 1968 , pp. 611 - 626
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1968 

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