Postgraduate medicine
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Postgraduate medicine · Apr 2017
ReviewParent-based diagnosis of ADHD is as accurate as a teacher-based diagnosis of ADHD.
To review the literature evaluating the psychometric properties of parent and teacher informants relative to a gold-standard ADHD diagnosis in pediatric populations. ⋯ Parent and teachers both yielded moderate to good diagnostic accuracy for ADHD diagnoses. Parent reports were statistically indistinguishable from those of teachers. The predictive features of the 'OR' and 'AND' rules are useful in evaluating approaches to better integrating information from these informants.