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PRiSM Psychosis Study

Design limitations, questionable conclusions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

Max Marshall ,
Gary Bond ,
Leonard I. Stein ,
Geoff Shepherd ,
John M McGrew ,
John Hoult ,
Alan Rosen ,
Peter Huxley ,
Ronald J. Diamond  and
Richard Warner
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Max Marshall*
Affiliation:
Department of Community Psychiatry, University of Manchester
Gary Bond
Affiliation:
Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Leonard I. Stein
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, WI, USA
Geoff Shepherd
Affiliation:
Guy's and St Thomas' Medical School, London
John M McGrew
Affiliation:
Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN, USA
John Hoult
Affiliation:
Camden and Islington National Health Service Trust, London
Alan Rosen
Affiliation:
Royal North Shorte Hospital and Community Mental Health Services, Sydney, Australia and Universities of Wollongong and Sydney, Australia
Peter Huxley
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Manchester
Ronald J. Diamond
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin and Mental Health Center of Dane County, Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
Richard Warner
Affiliation:
Mental Health Center of Boulder County and University of Colorado, CO, USA
Melody Olsen
Affiliation:
Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, Austin, TX, USA
Eric Latimer
Affiliation:
Douglas Hospital Research Centre and Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Tom K. J. Craig
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Canada, and Health Systems Research Unit, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Clarke Division, Toronto, Canada
Neil Meisler
Affiliation:
Guy's, King's and St Thomas' School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, London, and Lambeth Healthcare National Health Service Trust, St Thomas' Hospital, London
Mary Ann Test
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charlton, SC, USA
Paula Goering
Affiliation:
School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
*
Dr M. Marshall, Department of Community Psychiatry, University of Manchester, Guild Academic Centre, Royal Preston Hospital, Sharoe Green Lane, Preston PR2 9HT
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 175 , Issue 6 , December 1999 , pp. 501 - 503
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Copyright © 1999 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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†

See pp. 504–513, this issue.

AUTHORSHIP: Max Marshall and Gary Bond wrote the original draft with assistance from Geoff Shepherd, Leonard Stein and John McGrew. Al Rosen, Neil Meisler, Melody Olsen, Peter Huxley, Dick Warner, Ron Diamond, John Hoult, Paula Goering, Eric Latimer and Tom Craig commented on the draft, suggested alterations and expressed a wish to be co-signatories. Mary Ann Test expressed a wish to be a co-signatory.

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