Investigating vocabulary used to report symptoms of psychosis in electronic health records

  • Applicant: Andre Bittar
  • Project ID: 19-091

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 it challenging to gain information from text fields in the record. The aim of this project is to develop a novel approach to model and extract symptoms starting from multiple documents, with an initial focus on patients with psychosis.

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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The Clinical Record Interactive Search has been developed in collaboration with:

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
NIHR Maudsley BRC