TY - BOOK AU - Tyrer,Peter J. AU - Methuen,Caroline TI - Rating scales in psychiatry SN - 9781108585309 (ebook) AV - RC473.P78 T97 2007 U1 - 616.800212 22 PY - 2007/// CY - London PB - Royal College of Psychiatrists Publications KW - Psychiatric rating scales N1 - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Jan 2018) N2 - Selection of the best outcome measures is a crucial step in psychiatric research. There are excellent instruments available for most areas of interest and researchers are often faced with a confusing choice. Getting it right will save you time and money, affect the validity and comparability of your results and, ultimately, improve the impact of your publications. This booklet, extracted from the third edition of Research Methods in Psychiatry and with a new foreword and introduction, will help guide you through the crucial process of selecting the rating scales to use in your research. Crucially, each scale is listed with its citation rate as a guide to its popularity among the research community and the potential comparability of results UR - https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781108585309/type/BOOK ER -