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Open AccessUse of Natural Language Processing to identify Obsessive Compulsive Symptoms in patients with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder or bipolar disorder
Obsessive and Compulsive Symptoms (OCS) or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in the context of schizophrenia or related disorders are of clinical importance as these are associated with a range of adverse ou...
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Open AccessPsychiatric comorbidity as a risk factor for the mortality of people with bulimia nervosa
Bulimia nervosa (BN) is associated with increased mortality. Frequent comorbidities of BN include substance use disorders, affective disorders and personality disorders (PD). These comorbidities may add an add...
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Psychiatric comorbidity as a risk factor for mortality in people with anorexia nervosa
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is found associated with increased mortality. Frequent comorbidities of AN include substance use disorders (SUD), affective disorders (AD) and personality disorders (PD). We investigated ...
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Open AccessAntipsychotic polypharmacy prescribing and risk of hospital readmission
The aim of this study was to determine if there was an association between being discharged on antipsychotic polypharmacy (APP) and risk of readmission into secondary mental health care.
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Open AccessExtracting antipsychotic polypharmacy data from electronic health records: develo** and evaluating a novel process
Antipsychotic prescription information is commonly derived from structured fields in clinical health records. However, utilising diverse and comprehensive sources of information is especially important when in...
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Open AccessSuicide completion in secondary mental healthcare: a comparison study between schizophrenia spectrum disorders and all other diagnoses
Suicide completion is a tragic outcome in secondary mental healthcare. However, the extent to which demographic and clinical characteristics, suicide method and service use-related factors vary across psychiat...
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Open AccessDevelopment and evaluation of a de-identification procedure for a case register sourced from mental health electronic records
Electronic health records (EHRs) provide enormous potential for health research but also present data governance challenges. Ensuring de-identification is a pre-requisite for use of EHR data without prior cons...
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Open AccessThe association between social relationships and self-harm: a case–control study in Taiwan
Although suicide has been postulated as a result of social breakdown, relatively little attention has been paid to the association between social relationships and non-fatal self-harm. We sought to investigate...
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Socioeconomic disadvantage, mental disorders and risk of 12-month suicide ideation and attempt in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R) in US
We aim to explore the distinctive interrelationships between family income and mental disorders on suicidality in recent 12 months.
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Open AccessAll-cause mortality among people with serious mental illness (SMI), substance use disorders, and depressive disorders in southeast London: a cohort study
Higher mortality has been found for people with serious mental illness (SMI, including schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorders, and bipolar affective disorder) at all age groups. Our aim was to characterize v...
