Multimorbidity and risk of self-harm and suicide in individuals with severe mental illness

  • Applicant: Andre Bittar
  • Project ID: 21-032

Much information about self-harm and suicidality is recorded as free text. However, very little research has looked at the links between physical illness and self-harm/suicidality using free-text data. We will use natural language processing (NLP) tools to identify mentions of self-harm/suicidality and physical illness in the clinical notes of a cohort of patients in CRIS for use as variables in this study.

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