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People with severe mental illness at 50 per cent higher risk of death following COVID-19 infection

New research from King’s College London has found that people in the UK with severe mental illness were at increased risk of death from all causes following COVID-19 infection compared to those without severe mental illness.

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 25 Oct 2023

What can humans do to guarantee an ethical AI in healthcare? (Blog: Part I)

A two part feature by Dr Raquel Iniesta  exploring the current status of AI in healthcare, what we need to consider to ensure its application is ethical and current approaches that are helping this happen. Part I: Why do we need ethical AI? 

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 24 Oct 2023

Critical care admissions for people with dementia are increasing for those in their last year of life

A study led by the Cicely Saunders Institute at King’s College London has found that whilst critical care admissions for people with dementia are going down, they are increasing during the last year of life.

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 8 Sep 2023

Identifying mentions of pain in mental health records text: A natural language processing approach

Jaya Chaturvedi recently won the Best Student Paper Award at MedInfo 2023, the 19th world congress on medical and health conference, in Sydney, Australia. Jaya is a KCL DRIVE-Health CDT PhD Student in the Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London. Jaya writes about the  process and findings from her winning paper.

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 10 Aug 2023

Exposure to air pollution is associated with increased use of psychiatric services in people with dementia

New National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) supported research has found exposure to air pollution is associated with increased use of Community Mental Health Teams among people with dementia. 

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 7 Aug 2023