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
Prevalence of early onset dementia
Typically, dementia occurs in later life but approximately 4% of cases occurs in people younger than 65 years old. We would like to study the rate of young onset dementia (
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Chemsex: a CRIS study
Chemsex, the use of drugs in a sexual context, is beoming more common and is beginning to impact on local sexual and mental health services. This study will investigate the number
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Exploring sensitivity and specificity linkage errors in the CRIS-Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data linkage
Errors in matching in data linkages may cause errors to arise in subsequent research using these data. We will explore missed matches and false match errors in the CRIS-HES linkage.
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Electronic health records study of suicidal crisis presentations under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act
This project aims to describe and investigate characteristics of people presenting in a suicidal crisis under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act.
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Associations between Trazodone prescriptions and outcomes in dementia
Trazodone is a well-established antidepressant, which is already used in dementia care. New research has suggested that Tazodone could directly affect the dementia disease process to reduce the impact of dementia.
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Dental and oral disorders among people with severe mental illness (SMI) and dementia
People with mental disorders may have worse oral health but little is known about this. We will investigate the risks of dental disorders using linked hospital episode information, comparing people with
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Risk for dementia conversion in Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) with diabetes mellitus
The risk of dementia is increased in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Our project will investigate factors that are associated with risk of dementia in T2DM in an urban
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Driving cessation in Alzheimer's dementia (AD)
People with dementia eventually have to give up driving due to cognitive impairment. We would like to study the rate of driving difficulties and factors determining driving impairment in people with
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Outcomes in perinatal services
We need to know more about the outcomes of treatment in mother-and-baby units, in which women who have just given birth can stay with their babies, so that the case for
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Time to antipsychotic prescription during a first-episode psychosis
Antipsychotics are the main treatment for people experiencing a first-episode psychosis but time to antipsychotic initiation is undetermined and may affect outcomes. This study will investigate the association between time to
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