OPCRIT+: an electronic system for psychiatric diagnosis and data collection in clinical and research settings

Br J Psychiatry. 2011 Aug;199(2):151-5. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.110.082925.

Abstract

Background: The increasingly large sample size requirements of modern adult mental health research suggests the need for a data collection and diagnostic application that can be used across a broad range of clinical and research populations. Aims To develop a data collection and diagnostic application that can be used across a broad range of clinical and research settings.

Method: We expanded and redeveloped the OPCRIT system into a broadly applicable diagnostic and data-collection package and carried out an interrater reliability study of this new tool.

Results: OPCRIT+ performed well in an interrater reliability study with relatively inexperienced clinicians, giving a combined, weighted kappa of 0.70 for diagnostic reliability.

Conclusions: OPCRIT+ showed good overall interrater reliability scores for diagnoses. It is now incorporated in the electronic patient record of the Maudsley and associated hospitals. OPCRIT+ can be downloaded free of charge at http://sgdp.iop.kcl.ac.uk/opcritplus.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Algorithms
  • Clinical Competence
  • Computing Methodologies*
  • Data Collection / methods*
  • Data Collection / standards
  • Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / standards
  • Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
  • Electronics
  • Humans
  • International Classification of Diseases
  • Medical Staff, Hospital
  • Mental Disorders / classification
  • Mental Disorders / diagnosis*
  • Observer Variation
  • Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Software*