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The International Pilot Study of Schizophrenia (IPSS) is a transcultural psychiatric investigation of 1202 patients in nine countries — Colombia, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, India, Nigeria, Taiwan, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.
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Leff, J. et al. (1990). The International Pilot Study of Schizophrenia: Five-Year Follow-Up Findings. In: Häfner, H., Gattaz, W.F. (eds) Search for the Causes of Schizophrenia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74881-3_6
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