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CRIS blog: Using data on hospital episodes to look at the physical health of people with personality disorders

Dr Marcella Fok and Dr Chin-Kuo Chang used CRIS to look at the physical health of people diagnosed with a personality disorder.

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 13 Feb 2019
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CRIS Blog: Pathfinders and the public

Professor Robert Stewart discusses work supported by the MRC Mental Health Data Pathfinder awards as well as a survey about people's views on sharing health data for research purposes, from Pathfinder colleagues at the University of Edinburgh.

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 7 Feb 2019
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CRIS Blog: 10 years of CRIS: How to define a birthday?

Robert Stewart is academic lead for the Clinical Record Interactive Search (CRIS) system at the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). In this post he looks back at our event marking 10 years of Clinical Record Interactive Search (CRIS).

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 22 Jan 2019
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CRIS blog: Do long-term prescriptions of multiple antipsychotics contribute to the reduced life expectancy of patients with serious mental illness?

Dr Giouliana Kadra is a postdoctoral research associate at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London.

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 20 Nov 2018
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CRIS blog: The future of psychiatry research

Dr Karyn Ayre, NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow at King's College London, was awarded second prize in the in the 2018 Duncan Macmillan essay prize competition for her essay “The future of psychiatry research” which argued for new digital methodologies to be used in psychiatry research in order to improve the links between research data and the lived experience of people with mental health problems. We have republished her essay as a CRIS blog post.

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 16 Nov 2018
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