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Welcome to the CRIS project search area. As you will see below, there are a number of ways to find information about our CRIS projects. Simply add the criteria you are looking for into the relevant search field to see the relevant projects.
Please contact the CRIS Administrator for further details on existing projects or to apply to use CRIS for your own study. Email: cris.administrator@slam.nhs.uk
Which patients with dementia are at greatest risk of a mental health crisis
Sometimes people with dementia develop mental health difficulties which are so severe that the require a psychiatric crisis intervention, either through a community crisis team or through an admission to a
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Mortality monitoring in mental healthcare during and after the COVID-19 pandemic
Increased mortality was observed in SLaM service users during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic but hasn't been evaluated since early 2021. There are well-publicised concerns about continued excess mortality
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Mortality in people with dementia admitted to psychiatric wards
On rare occasions, people with dementia need to be admitted to psychiatric inpatient units. These patients often have complex mental and physical health problems and might be near the end of
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Crisis care for people with complex emotional needs or a diagnosis of ‘personality disorder’: a study of crisis care pathways and outcomes
There is a lack of research into care for people with a ‘personality disorder’ diagnosis compared with other mental health problems, particularly in the areas of crisis and acute care. The
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Comparison of recorded pain between patients from the CRIS database and Lambeth DataNet
The purpose of this project is to compare a cohort within CRIS which was selected using outputs of an NLP (natural language processing) application, developed to identify mentions of pain within
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Diagnostic and referral pathway variation between foreign-born women and British-born women accessing mental health services in southeast London
Foreign-born females often face different challenges in accessing support compared to other members of society, even though they are the most likely to require mental health support. This study will investigate
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FEASIBILITY AND ACCEPTABILITY OF A UK BASED REMOTE BRAIN HEALTH CLINIC FOR PATIENTS WITH MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT (MCI)
The remote Brain Health Clinic is a new service within SLaM that aims to subtype mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and diagnose dementia at an earlier stage. This research project will assess
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Psychomotor retardation in depression and risk of Parkinson’s disease
People who have depression are at higher risk of subsequent development of Parkinson’s disease, but it is not known which patients with depression might be at highest risk. We propose to
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Optimizing treatment selection of severe mental disorders (SMD)
Currently, there are limited guidelines for selecting a specific medication for a given patient based on their individual characteristics. This study will investigate whether new prediction modelling techniques (precision treatment rules)
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Fathers receiving substance use treatment
This project will: 1) investigate the characteristics of fathers of dependent children receiving treatment for substance use, comparing the characteristics of fathers vs non-fathers and the characteristics of fathers non-involved in
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