Cialdella P, Adeleine P, Gialdini J M, Jean C
Encephale. 1986 Jul-Aug;12(4):155-60.
To determine the choice of an adequate automatic data processing system in psychiatry, as in medicine, requires a serious set of specifications: one must take into account the aims, and distinguish between everyday applications of file processing, and other ones, more demanding, of research and statistical applications, often little compatible with each other. The financial means have to be compared with the expected benefits (output): often in psychiatry, the patient turn-over is too low to justify the purchase of an expensive hardware. The objectives of filing and classification have to break out, in order to supply the best answer (soft ware). However a computer system alone will not be sufficient to settle, anyway, the question of diagnosis in psychiatry.
如同在医学领域一样，要确定在精神病学中选择合适的自动数据处理系统，需要一系列严格的规范：必须考虑目标，并区分日常文件处理应用与其他要求更高的研究和统计应用，而这两者往往不太兼容。财务状况必须与预期收益（产出）进行比较：在精神病学领域，患者周转率往往过低，以至于购买昂贵硬件并不划算。必须明确存档和分类的目标，以便提供最佳答案（软件）。然而，仅靠计算机系统无论如何都不足以解决精神病学中的诊断问题。
