ICD-10 - Acute Schizophrenia-Like Psychotic Disorder
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[From World Health Organization. The ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders: Diagnostic Criteria for Research. Copyright, World Health Organization, Geneva, 1993.] ...
- The onset of psychotic symptoms must be acute (2 weeks or less from a nonpsychotic to a clearly psychotic state).
- Symptoms that fulfill the criteria of schizophrenia must have been present for the majority of time.
- The criteria for acute polymorphic psychotic disorder are not fulfilled.
If the psychotic symptoms last for more than 1 month, then the diagnosis should be changed to schizophrenia.
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