- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Poisoning and overdose treatments
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Treatment of Major Depression
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Patient Safety and Medication Errors
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Remote Sensing and Land Use
- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
2016-2025
King's College London
2004-2025
Department of Health and Social Care
2023
Public Health England
2014-2022
Yale University
2020
John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2020
Mental Health Foundation
2014-2019
Government of the United Kingdom
2018
Lurie Children's Hospital
2015
Sports Surgery Clinic
2015
<h3>Context</h3> Adverse drug events, especially those that may be preventable, are among the most serious concerns about medication use in older persons cared for ambulatory clinical setting. <h3>Objective</h3> To assess incidence and preventability of adverse events <h3>Design, Setting, Patients</h3> Cohort study all Medicare enrollees (30 397 person-years observation) by a multispecialty group practice during 12-month period (July 1, 1999, through June 30, 2000), which possible...
Synopsis A standardized, semi-structured interview for examining and recording the mental state in elderly subjects is described. It allows classification of patients by symptom profile can demonstrate changes that over time. believed good reliability demonstrated between psychiatric raters both diagnosis made on basis schedule findings individual items. The Geriatric Mental State Schedule (GMS) consists mainly items from eighth edition PSE (Wing et al. 1967), together with additional PSS...
Objectives: To gather information on patient‐level factors associated with risk of adverse drug events (ADEs) that may allow focus prevention efforts patients at high risk. Design: Nested case‐control study. Setting: Large multispecialty group practice in New England. Participants: All Medicare enrollees cared for by a during 1 year (N=30,397 person‐years from July 1, 1999, through June 30, 2000). For each patient an ADE, control was randomly selected. Measurements: Data were abstracted...
A computerised diagnosis, AGECAT, is applied to data from random community samples of the elderly in New York and London order examine prevalence mental illness two cities, especially result reported same study, using a different diagnostic procedure, that proportion dementia was higher York. The greater confirmed for all AGECAT's levels confidence, both sexes at half-decades over 65 years. Provided this difference upheld genetic differences can be discounted, these findings would seem...
One hundred geriatric psychiatric patients were examined with the Geriatric Mental State Schedule in New York and London, a correlation procedure involving both clinical statistical operations was carried out on psychopathological data thus collected. Twenty-one factors produced, including three dealing cognitive impairment. Although it found that elderly depressives show profile of psychopathology quite different from shown by organic disorder, also an apparently functional disorder may...
In-depth reports of an international study devoted to the comparative needs and care community elderly in two English-speaking countries.
To examine various strategies for the identification of adverse drug events (ADEs) among older persons in ambulatory clinical setting.A cohort study Medicare enrollees (n = 31,757 per month) receiving medical care from a large multispecialty group practice during 12-month observation period (July 1, 1999 through June 30, 2000).Possible drug-related incidents occurring setting were detected using signals multiple sources.During tracking period, there 1,523 identified ADEs, which 421 (28%)...
The coronavirus pandemic resulted in many changes which had the potential to impact mortality related opioid agonist therapy (OAT; methadone, buprenorphine), including prescribing and dispensing of OAT patterns drug availability use. We aimed assess first lockdown (initiated March 23rd 2020) on methadone- buprenorphine-related deaths England people both prescribed not using data from National Programme Substance Abuse Deaths.This was a retrospective post-mortem toxicology study OAT-related...
Abstract A computerized diagnosis, AGECAT, is applied to data from random community samples of elderly people in New York and London order examine the distribution mental illness between males females. The greater proportion dementia females confirmed for all AGECAT's levels diagnostic confidence, depression at except one. Age‐ sex‐specific prevalence rates are quoted each half decade 65 90 years. Differences sexes on syndrome case subcase neurotic disorder do not reach statistical significance.
In order to understand differences in suicide rates between the countries affiliated International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP), present paper investigates whether there is a relationship existence of religious sanctions and aggregate national as reported World Health Organization. Through their participation this study, 49 IASP representatives on against suicide. It was discovered that with were less likely return WHO. Comparative analysis revealed average are lower than those...
The official suicide rate in Ireland increased markedly between 1970 and 1985. This is genuine increase not an apparent one due to previous deficiencies recording practices. Possible reasons for this change include 'anomie' shown by a rise the rates of crime, illegitimacy admissions hospital alcoholism, decline social cohesion revealed fall marriage number separated couples, unemployment.
The original aim of the U.S./U.K. Diagnostic Project, founded in 1965, was to examine differences national statistics for diagnostic frequencies among patients admitted state mental hospitals United States America and area England Wales.
Synopsis A principal components analysis has been carried out on the Leyton Obsessional Inventory replies of 302 normal subjects, divided into subgroups by sex and nationality (Irish English). Three distinct were found in all analyses, which have called ‘clean tidy’, ‘incompleteness’, ‘checking’. Other less are described, differences similarities between analyses discussed.
Abstract Patients treated for drug addiction have high asthma and COPD prevalence rates. The relative contributions of cigarette smoking, smoking intensity possible other substances has not been described. We aimed to describe the determinants in patients prescribed methadone as opioid substitution therapy (OST). In a cross-sectional study an anonymised patient-level primary care dataset UK inner-city general practices ( n = 46), 321,395 aged ≥18 years were identified. A total 676 (0.21%)...
People who inject drugs often get bacterial infections. Few longitudinal studies have reported the incidence and treatment costs of these infections.For a cohort 2335 people heroin entering for drug dependence between 2006 2017 in London, England, we rates hospitalisation or death with primary causes cutaneous abscess, cellulitis, phlebitis, septicaemia, osteomyelitis, septic arthritis, endocarditis, necrotising fasciitis. We compared to general population. also used NHS reference calculate...
Science means research. Current research in suicidology, however, needs development. Therefore, a task force was established by the International Academy for Suicide Research (IASR) to make recommendations future study of suicide. These consultations are offered only as current thoughts assist, not research, but also aid preventing