Search the CRIS Projects
Welcome to the CRIS project search area. As you will see below, there are a number of ways to find information about our CRIS projects. Simply add the criteria you are looking for into the relevant search field to see the relevant projects.
Please contact the CRIS Administrator for further details on existing projects or to apply to use CRIS for your own study. Email: cris.administrator@slam.nhs.uk
Investigating clinical outcomes associated with remote mental healthcare using natural language processing
Remote technologies such as phone, video calls, text messages and e-mail allow patients and clinicians to communicate with each other when it is not possible to meet in-person. During the COVID-19
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Changes in rates of cannabis and other substances misuse among patients presenting with psychosis at St Thomas’ Hospital A&E before and during the COVID19 pandemic
This project aims to use the CRIS (Clinical Record Interactive Search) to investigate the changes in rates of cannabis use data (and other substance misuse data) collected from people assessed for
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Factors associated with violence and aggression in Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit
The present study will examine socioenvironmental factors associated with violence and aggression at admission to psychiatric intensive care units, with a particular focus on minority ethnic groups and the use of
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Stroke incidence after depot antipsychotic initiation
There are concerns about the risk of stroke and cardiovascular disease in people receiving antipsychotic medication. This study will compare these outcomes in people receiving different 'depot' (long acting injectable) antipsychotic
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Clozapine in combination with LAI
Clozapine is the most effective antipsychotic, but up to 60% of patients treated with clozapine monotherapy will not or only partially respond to treatment. Furthermore, discontinuation rates are up to 60%
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Feasibility of using electronic health records to identify who are the fathers of dependent children attending substance use treatment in SLaM services
Assessing parental status of men in electronic health records might be potentially more difficult than identifying mothers as they might avoid scrutiny of identification by public agencies where there are serious
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Investigation of the mental health care and maternity care given to women with obsessive compulsive disorder during pregnancy and postpartum using routinely collected mental health and maternity data.
Little is known about the sort of care that women with OCD receive in pregnancy or soon after their baby is born. This project will describe the mental health care and
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Testing the feasibility and utility of automated decision support using quantitative MRI volumetric reports in a real world memory clinic cohort
This project will use a novel cutting edge algorithms to automatically provide readouts of the size of an individual’s brain areas compared to a reference population using brain magnetic resonance
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Cognitive trajectories and dementia risk in patients with schizophrenia
This study investigates memory loss in people with schizophrenia, and whether this resembles dementia. Although some studies have reported that patients with schizophrenia have a higher risk of dementia, it is
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Avoidable hospitalisation among patients with mental health conditions compared with general population.
In general hospitals in the UK, there is a high rate of admissions for acute illnesses that can otherwise be treated with the appropriate health service (e.g., at the GP or
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