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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
Data analysis of the current treatments for treatment resistant depression and major depressive disorder with suicidal ideation/high-risk using CRIS database
This project is a collaboration with Janssen Pharmaceuticals to describe the frequency of treatment-resistant depression (TRD) and depression associated with suicidal ideation/high-risk in mental healthcare, and to describe treatment patterns and
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Non-cognitive symptoms as predictors of mortality in dementia
Dementia is a condition associated with shortened life expectancy. However, little is known about dementia specific predictors of mortality, other than memory problems. We aim to analyse how other symptoms of
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Identification of Physiotherapy Receipt, Demographic Predictors, and Outcomes among individuals with Mental Illness
Physiotherapy can improve the physical, mental and social health of individuals with mental health problems; however, it is not known who accesses physiotherapy, their diagnoses and demographic characteristics, their duration and
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Depression prodromal to Alzheimer’s disease: mechanisms, biomarkers and potential drug targets
The project will investigate the association between late-life depression and dementia. We intend to assess clinical factors associated with the progression of late-life (especially late-onset) depression to dementia.
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Clinical health informatics to address the challenge of multimorbidity: A longitudinal approach
There is an urgent need to understand how multimorbidity (the occurrence of multiple health conditions) develops over the life, how individuals progress from the diagnoses of a first single chronic health
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The impact of early medication administration on length of hospital stay
With psychiatric bed pressures increasing, patients are experiencing longer waits in A&E and on acute medical wards before they can be transferred to mental health inpatient units; as a result liaison
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Co-prescribing in dementia, providing the evidence-base for decision support
This project will examine the potential risks and benefits of medications prescribed for other conditions in people with dementia.
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Improving the safety of prescribing in dementia- Clinical validation of the AEC scale
Anticholinergic drugs can increase the risk of cognitive decline, dementia and death in older adults and their use should be limited in this group of patients where possible. The Anticholinergic Effect
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Patterns of polysubstance use and their association with adverse health outcomes in addiction services clients.
People misuse drugs in combination, but usually research considers the effects of one kind of drug on health outcomes. This project will use a computer algorithm to group patients according
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Advantages of specialized care for treatment-resistant psychosis: two year mirror-image study of National Psychosis Unit patients
The National Psychosis Unit (NPU) at Bethlem Hospital in London is a highly specialized service where patients with treatment-resistant psychotic disorders are referred from across the country. It is still argued
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