Takada K, Nakane Y
Department of Neuropsychiatry, Nagasaki University School of Medicine (WHO Collaborating Center for Research and Training in Mental Health), Japan.
Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 1998 Dec;52 Suppl:S341-3. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1998.tb03263.x.
The Nagasaki Center, designated as a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center in 1979, has taken the lead in generalizing ICD-10 (F) in Japan. The progress of ICD-10 (F)-related research, trials and publications has been as follows. The field trials of ICD-10 Clinical Descriptions and Diagnostic Guidelines (CDDG) 1986 draft were carried out with 129 patients by 61 clinicians in five institutions coordinated by Tokyo Medical and Dental University and Nagasaki University in 1988. The Japanese version of ICD-10 CDDG was published by Tooru et al. in February 1993. The field trials of ICD-10 Diagnostic Criteria for Research (DCR) 1990 version were conducted with 847 patients by 169 clinicians at 28 institutions and 2299 assessments were obtained. The Japanese version of ICD-10 DCR final version was published by Nakane et al. in May 1994. The Japanese version of the Glossaries and Conversion Tables between ICD-9 and ICD-10 was published by Nakane et al. in October 1994. The field trials of ICD-10 Multiaxial Presentation were conducted with 34 psychiatrists at six institutions in 1993 and the total of 676 assessments was obtained, and the adequacy and usefulness of the text were examined.
