Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 41, Issue 3 , Pages 191-196 , May 2000

Clinical predictors of discrepancy between self-ratings and examiner ratings for negative symptoms

  • Jean-Paul Selten

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Jean-Paul Selten, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital, PO Box 85500, 3508 GA Utrecht, The Netherlands.
    • From the Department of Psychiatry, University of Utrecht, Utrecht,The Netherlands
    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Groningen, Groningen,The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Durk Wiersma

      Affiliations

    • From the Department of Psychiatry, University of Utrecht, Utrecht,The Netherlands
    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Groningen, Groningen,The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Robert J. van den Bosch

      Affiliations

    • From the Department of Psychiatry, University of Utrecht, Utrecht,The Netherlands
    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Groningen, Groningen,The Netherlands

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doi: 10.1016/S0010-440X(00)90047-6

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 41, Issue 3 , Pages 191-196 , May 2000

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