{"title":"Improving mental health diagnostic quality through cognitively tractable definitions","authors":"Philip Millroth, August Collsiöö","doi":"10.1038/s44220-025-00404-8","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Arriving at a clinical diagnosis using diagnostic criteria is fundamental to mental health practice. Here we argue that high diagnostic quality can only be achieved by aligning diagnostic frameworks with the cognitive capabilities of clinicians, which may require redefining not only the diagnostic procedures but also the criteria themselves.","PeriodicalId":74247,"journal":{"name":"Nature mental health","volume":"3 4","pages":"393-395"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nature mental health","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s44220-025-00404-8","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Arriving at a clinical diagnosis using diagnostic criteria is fundamental to mental health practice. Here we argue that high diagnostic quality can only be achieved by aligning diagnostic frameworks with the cognitive capabilities of clinicians, which may require redefining not only the diagnostic procedures but also the criteria themselves.