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    Social contacts, friends and satisfaction with friendships in patients with psychotic, mood and neurotic disorders 1 year after hospitalisation: data from five European countries

    People with severe mental illness often struggle with social relationships, but differences among diagnostic groups are unclear. We assessed and compared objective and subjective social relationship indicators...

    Kurt Buhagiar, Stefan Priebe in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemio… (2021)

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    Oral antipsychotic prescribing and association with neighbourhood-level socioeconomic status: analysis of time trend of routine primary care data in England, 2011–2016

    Increasing rates of antipsychotic prescribing have been reported previously, particularly for second-generation antipsychotics (SGAs), which are generally better tolerated than the older first-generation antip...

    Kurt Buhagiar, Mustafa Ghafouri in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemio… (2020)

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    Accuracy of prescribing documentation by UK junior doctors undertaking psychiatry placements: a multi-centre observational study

    Medical records are critical to patient care, but often contain incomplete information. In UK hospitals, record-kee** is traditionally undertaken by junior doctors, who are increasingly completing early-care...

    Mrinalini Dey, Kurt Buhagiar, Farid Jabbar in BMC Research Notes (2019)

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    Association of First- vs. Second-Generation Antipsychotics with Lipid Abnormalities in Individuals with Severe Mental Illness: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Individuals with severe mental illness experience increased morbidity and mortality as a result of metabolic problems that may partly be related to the adverse effects of antipsychotics. Compared with first-ge...

    Kurt Buhagiar, Farid Jabbar in Clinical Drug Investigation (2019)

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    Correlation of Age and Metabolic Adverse Effects of Antipsychotics

    Eugene Y. H. Yeung, Kurt Buhagiar in Clinical Drug Investigation (2018)

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    Physical health behaviours and health locus of control in people with schizophrenia-spectrum disorder and bipolar disorder: a cross-sectional comparative study with people with non-psychotic mental illness

    People with mental illness experience high levels of morbidity and mortality from physical disease compared to the general population. Our primary aim was to compare how people with severe mental illness (SMI;...

    Kurt Buhagiar, Liam Parsonage, David PJ Osborn in BMC Psychiatry (2011)