CRIS evaluation project – Investigating the ability of CRIS to deal with certain research questions and how it currently handles certain types of data. In addition, looking at the relevance of data extracted to possible research questions.

Evaluate the ease of use of accessing data for research questions, in terms of complexity of search strategy required, and manual retrieval of information from data e.g. is the data readily accessible and analysable, or does it have to be extracted from text fields per individual record. The above will be done by assessing data in relation to the following questions: – Evaluating a range of co-morbidities in schizophrenia. – Evaluating a range of co-morbidities in depression. To evaluate whether the CRIS database is able to match the established literature with regards to population characteristics.