Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 50, Issue 3 , Pages 257-262, May 2009

The Clinical Global Impressions scale: errors in understanding and use

  • Joan Busner

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA
    • United BioSource Corporation, Wayne, PA, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. United BioSource Corporation, Wayne, PA 19087, USA. Tel.: +1 610 225 5982.
  • ,
  • Steven D. Targum

      Affiliations

    • United BioSource Corporation, Wayne, PA, USA
    • Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
    • Oxford BioScience Partners, Boston, MA
  • ,
  • David S. Miller

      Affiliations

    • United BioSource Corporation, Wayne, PA, USA

published online 17 October 2008.

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 Portions of the data were previously presented as posters at the 47th Annual Meeting of the NCDEU, Boca Raton, FL, June 11 to 14, 2007, and the 20th Congress of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, October 13 to 17, 2007, Vienna, Austria.

 The authors are all affiliated with United BioSource Corporation (Wayne, PA), which provides rater training services. Dr Targum is an equity holder of United BioSource Corporation.

PII: S0010-440X(08)00117-X

doi:10.1016/j.comppsych.2008.08.005

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 50, Issue 3 , Pages 257-262, May 2009