Administrative staff may give the interview without a clinician being present. Useful as a Training Tool PsychDiagnoser and mini PsychDiagnoser interviews can also be used as a training tool, such as to verify the diagnoses of residents, medical students or physicians who perform psychiatric interviews only occasionally. Allows Patient Expression With many open-ended probing questions in PsychDiagnoser, patients are able to relate their problems, including topics that may not be included in a psychiatric diagnostic interview. Patients may appreciate having an outlet for issues that do not have diagnostic relevance. The PsychDiagnoser and mini PsychDiagnoser interviews provide a consistent dataset of information on every patient.
Computers can provide predictable and reliable psychiatric data.
Computer ability to reliably gather diagnostic data for the psychiatrist to assimilate can greatly facilitate the overall diagnostic process. All rights reserved.