Inter-rater agreement of comorbid DSM-IV personality disorders in substance abusers | BMC Psychiatry | Full Text
Morten Hesse†Email author and Birgitte Thylstrup† †Contributed equally BMC Psychiatry20088:37 DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-8-37 © Hesse and Thylstrup; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2008 Received: 27 September 2007 Accepted: 17 May 2008 Published: 17 May 2008 Open Peer Review reports Abstract Background Little is known about the inter-rater agreement of personality disorders in clinical settings. Methods Clinicians rated 75 patients with substance use disorders on the DSM-IV criteria of personality disorders in random order, and on rating scales representing the severity of each. Results Convergent validity agreement was moderate (range…