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{{hatnote|Not to be confused with the [[Research Domain Criteria]] (RDoC) framework being developed by the National Institute of Mental Health}}

The '''Research Diagnostic Criteria''' ('''RDC''') are a collection of influential [[psychiatric]] diagnostic criteria published in late 1970s under auspices of Statistics Section NY Psychiatric Institute, authors were Spitzer, R L; Endicott J; Robins E. PMID 1153649.<ref name="Spitzer">Spitzer RL, Robins E (1978). [http://archpsyc.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/35/6/773 Research diagnostic criteria: rationale and reliability] Archives of General Psychiatry, vol. 35, no6, pp. 773–82 {{PMID|655775}}</ref> As psychiatric diagnoses widely varied especially between the US and Europe, the purpose of the criteria was to allow diagnoses to be consistent in psychiatric research. 

Some of the criteria were based on the earlier [[Feighner Criteria]], although many new disorders were included; "The historical record shows that the small group of individuals who created the Feighner criteria instigated a paradigm shift that has had profound effects on the course of American and, ultimately, world psychiatry."<ref>[http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?articleid=102104 The Development of the Feighner Criteria: A Historical Perspective]  Kenneth S. Kendler, M.D.; Rodrigo A. Muñoz, M.D.; George Murphy, M.D. Am J Psychiatry 2009;167:134–142. 10.1176/appi.ajp.2009.09081155</ref>

The RDC is important in the history of psychiatric diagnostic criteria as the [[DSM-III]] was based on many of the RDC descriptions, head of DSM III Edition was R L Spitzer.<ref name="Garfield">Spitzer RL (1989). [http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/classics1989/A1989U309700001.pdf Commentary on RDC by Robert Spitzer], Current Contents, vol. 32, no19, p21</ref>

==See also==
*[[Diagnostic classification and rating scales used in psychiatry]]
*[[Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia]]

==References==
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[[Category:Classification of mental disorders]]