Service use and cost for Children with Medically Unexplained Symptoms

  • Applicant: Benjamin Baig
  • Project ID: 19-082

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 hospital admissions. We will investigate if there is a similar pattern of service use in children with medically unexplained symptoms, and will estimate the impact of SLAM’s child and adolescent liaison psychiatry service.

The Clinical Record Interactive Search (CRIS) system is a computer system that allows researchers at the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) to carry out research using information from South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust clinical records.

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South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
NIHR Maudsley BRC