Patterns of polysubstance use and their association with adverse health outcomes in addiction services clients.

  • Applicant: Mary Thornton
  • Project ID: 18-106

People misuse drugs in combination, but usually research considers the effects of one kind of drug on health outcomes. This project will use a computer algorithm to group patients according to different combinations of drug use, and investigate whether certain groups are disproportionately at risk of poor mental health and physical health outcomes.

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