Diagnostics
Between 1998 and 2011 we have conducted 4649 diagnostic examinations of which 1527 (32,8%) were used for scientific purposes (see research). Patients who were examined at other hospitals within multi-center research cooperations are excluded from this count. Probands of pre-clinical studies, such as the validation of the German version of the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire (SPQ-G, N = 800) or the development of a sociodemographic formula for the quantitative estimation of the premorbid intelligence level (N = 612), are also omitted from these figures.
On the average, our patients were 49,1 years old, varying between 9 (!) to 93 years. All in all we examined more men (53,1 %) than women. Approximately every fifth examination was for longitudinal observation (18,6 %).
The following figure summarises the diagnoses at discharge of the patients who were examined by us between 1998 and 2011. Only first examinations were included, not repeated ones, of those who a) were examined during a stay at one of the wards of our psychiatric hospital or while in need of one of our specialised outpatient services, b) received a psychiatric main diagnosis (ICD-10 F-code), and c) were examined exclusively for clinical reasons (excluding study patients).
