Parker G
Br J Psychiatry. 1975 Dec;127:556-8. doi: 10.1192/bjp.127.6.556.
Comparative studies of first admission rates to psychiatric hospitals have revealed significant differences in the rates of diagnoses of functional psychoses between the United Kingdom and the United States of America. The present study examined the diagnoses of indigenous patients born between 1921 and 1955 and first admitted to hospitals in New South Wales, Australia, and England and Wales. Admission rates for mania were in striking agreement. The rate in New South Wales for schizophrenia was slightly higher and for psychotic depression considerably less than in England and Wales. A similar trend in diagnostic dissonance would appear to exist between England and Wales and New South Wales as between England and Wales and the United States for schizophrenia and psychotic depression, but this is considerably less in degree.
对精神病院首次收治率的比较研究表明，英国和美国在功能性精神病的诊断率上存在显著差异。本研究调查了1921年至1955年出生、首次入住澳大利亚新南威尔士州、英格兰和威尔士医院的本土患者的诊断情况。躁狂症的收治率惊人地一致。新南威尔士州精神分裂症的收治率略高于英格兰和威尔士，而精神性抑郁症的收治率则远低于英格兰和威尔士。英格兰和威尔士与新南威尔士州之间在精神分裂症和精神性抑郁症的诊断分歧上，似乎存在与英格兰和威尔士与美国之间类似的趋势，但程度要小得多。
