SHIELD project: self-harm monitoring system

To capture demographic and psychiatric categorical data on individuals who have presented with an episode of self-harm through the Emergency Departments of St Thomas’ and King’s College hospitals. Existing process sees cases identified via database officers based in Clinical Toxicology at GSTT, where medical and toxicological data is stored on a GSTT server based Access database. SLAM assessors (Doctors and nurses) then routinely fill out a 2 page audit form which is added to the Access database to link psychiatric data to the medical data. This project will aim to bring a list of pseudo-anonymised cases (SLAM ePJ number) to CRIS and match a range of categorical output variables misted below. This has the advantage of making the ongoing data collection more sustainable by passing the need for a paper trail.