Goldstein G, Hall W, Andrews G
Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1984 Sep;70(3):220-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1984.tb01201.x.
Age-specific estimates of the incidence of schizophrenia in NSW, Australia, have been made using two methods, one based on a psychiatric register and the other based on routinely collected hospital morbidity data. Similar results were obtained by both methods. The estimates lie towards the bottom of the range of incidence estimates of schizophrenia that have been published for some other countries, and are lower than estimates from a number of U.S. studies. The diagnostic criteria of schizophrenia employed by Australian psychiatrists conform closely to DSM-III criteria.
澳大利亚新南威尔士州已采用两种方法对精神分裂症发病率进行了特定年龄估计，一种基于精神病学登记册，另一种基于常规收集的医院发病率数据。两种方法得出了相似的结果。这些估计值处于已发表的其他一些国家精神分裂症发病率估计范围的底部，且低于一些美国研究的估计值。澳大利亚精神科医生采用的精神分裂症诊断标准与《精神疾病诊断与统计手册》第三版（DSM-III）标准非常一致。
