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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 vocabulary used to report symptoms of psychosis in electronic health records
In mental health records, the vocabulary used to describe psychosis symptoms can be highly variable (i.e. many different words or expressions may possibly be used to describe a single symptom), making
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Modelling and extracting disease progression from multiple patient documents
In mental health records, symptom progression information is often documented over time across patient documents, which can be particularly long and include variable terminology. For patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia,
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Unraveling clinical patterns in people with epilepsy, psychogenic non-epileptic seizures, or dual diagnosis
Distinguishing epilepsy and psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) is a common challenge in clinical practice, resulting in diagnostic delays of 7 years on average. This project will characterise these clinical populations, describe
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Ascertaining new psychotic symptoms from text fields in CRIS - thought interference and passivity
The symptoms people experience tend to be recorded in text fields in CRIS and considerable progress has been made in the last few years in developing programs to ascertain when these
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CRIS-NCRS: Mental health outcomes following exposure to childhood cancers
This project aims to investigate whether a diagnosis of childhood cancer is predictive of later mental health problems.
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The Effectiveness of Sexual Assault Referral Centres with regard to Mental Health and Substance Use: A National Mixed Method Study
.Over 40% of attendees at Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs) have a mental health disorder. This project will compare the outcomes of victims of sexual assault who receive therapeutic support within
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The profile of alcohol use in suicidal crisis (Place of Safety)
Over half of the people who receive crisis care at the SLaM Place of Safety following a suicide attempt are intoxicated with alcohol. This project will identify different patterns of alcohol
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Service use and cost for Children with Medically Unexplained Symptoms
Up to one third of all children attending paediatric clinics for physical symptoms have no medical explanation for their symptoms. Adults with unexplained symptoms may undergo many (unnecessary) appointments, tests and
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Predicting organic aetiology of First Episode Psychosis
At least some cases of new-onset psychosis may have other underlying conditions as a cause of this. This study aims to identify psychosis with these underlying 'organic' causes in patients presenting
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Development of an extended medications application using natural language processing (NLP) techniques
The purpose of this project is to help identify medication information from textual information in the health record. The results of this will be made available for use by other CRIS
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