Advantages of specialized care for treatment-resistant psychosis: two year mirror-image study of National Psychosis Unit patients

  • Applicant: Cecilia Casetta
  • Project ID: 18-105

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 whether centres of expertise like the NPU can be useful long-term. Using CRIS, we will compare disease severity measures before and after an admission to the NPU for all patients who have been treated there between 2007 and 20015.

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