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Clinical Pathways Resource Guide - CEIC

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Referral Decision Scale (RDS)<br />

Purpose: The RDS is a screening tool designed to identify those persons who have a<br />

high probability of major mental disorder so that a fuller assessment assessment<br />

may occur. It<br />

was developed for use in the criminal justice system.<br />

<strong>Clinical</strong> utility: Used to predict DIS lifetime diagnoses of schizophrenia, bipolar bipolar<br />

disorder and major depressive disorder. The questions included in in<br />

the RDS were<br />

distilled from the Diagnostic Interview Schedule.<br />

Groups with whom this instrument has been used: Adults in the criminal justice<br />

system.<br />

Norms: Yes.<br />

Format: 14 questions, self-administered.<br />

self administered.<br />

Administration time: 5 minutes.<br />

Scoring time: Summing of yes responses; 1 minute.<br />

Computer scoring? No.<br />

Administrator training and qualifications: Interviewers must be trained on DIS<br />

flowchart.<br />

Fee for use: None, public domain.<br />

Available from: Dr. Linda Teplin<br />

l_teplin@northwestern.edu<br />

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