MD Magazine (4/23, Kunzmann) reports, “A retroactive analysis of patients referred to a psychiatry consultation clinic often by primary care physicians with an initial schizophrenia diagnosis found that about half of all such diagnoses were inaccurate upon further review,” researchers reported after conducting “a retroactive chart review of 78 patients who has been referred…with an early psychosis diagnosis.” The study revealed that “the most common patients to be misdiagnosed with schizophrenia were in their teens and 20s with symptoms of anxiety.” The findings were published in the March issue of the Journal of Psychiatric Practice.
Related Links:
— “Patients Are Commonly Misdiagnosed with Schizophrenia, “Kevin Kunzmann, MD Magazine, April 23, 2019