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Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS)
-------------------------------------

History and guide
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Original 16-item version: Overall & Gorham (1962),
http://www.amsciepub.com/doi/abs/10.2466/pr0.1962.10.3.799.

18-item version (adding disorientation and excitement): Overall (1972, 1976);
see Dingemans et al. (1995), http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8748395.

20-item anchored version (adding overall severity/improvement impressions): US
DHHS, as below.

An overview is at
http://www.cnsforum.com/clinicalresources/ratingscales/ratingpsychiatry/schizophrenia/

Source
~~~~~~

Original source is at
http://www.amsciepub.com/doi/pdf/10.2466/pr0.1962.10.3.799 and at
http://www.cnsforum.com/streamfile.aspx?filename=BPRS.pdf&path=pdf.

Also: US Department of Health & Human Services: Public Health Service; Alcohol,
Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration; NIMH Treatment Strategies in
Schizophrenia Society. Anchored. Originally after Overall & Gorham (1962). As
in Kaplan & Sadock (2005, eds) *Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry*, 8th ed;
Lippincott, Philadelphia, p. 939.

Intellectual property rights
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Public domain.

- “Available in public domain.”
  (http://www.masspartnership.com/provider/outcomesmanagement/outcomesfiles/tools/bprs.pdf,
  accessed 2012-09-04.)

- Original paper indicates funding by the US Veterans Administration and the US
  NIMH (thus, a work of the US federal government).

- Overall (1978) explains its development within the VA Central
  Neuropsychiatric Research Laboratory
  (http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/classics1979/A1979HZ19700001.pdf).

- “In public domain.”
  (http://apntoolkit.mcmaster.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=218:brief-psychiatric-rating-scale-bprs&catid=46:mental-health&Itemid=64).
