Browsing by Author "Smith, Katharine A"
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Covid-19 and mental health: a transformational opportunity to apply an evidence-based approach to clinical practice and research
Smith, Katharine A; Ostinelli, Edoardo; Cipriani, Andrea (2020-04)The Oxford Precision Psychiatry Lab (https://oxfordhealthbrc.nihr.ac.uk/our-work/oxppl/, @OxfordPPL) collected from senior clinicians in the local Mental Health Trust a list of specific and focused questions about mental ... -
COVID-19 and substance use disorders: a review of international guidelines for frontline healthcare workers of addiction services
Ostinelli, Edoardo; Smith, Katharine A; Zangani, Caroline; Macdonald, Orla; Cipriani, Andrea (2022-03)People with substance use disorders may be at a greater risk of contracting COVID-19 infection and developing medical complications. Several institutional and governmental health agencies across the world developed ad hoc ... -
COVID-19 vaccines, hesitancy and mental health
Smith, Katharine A; Freeman, Daniel; Cipriani, Andrea (2021-04)‘None of us will be safe until everyone is safe. Global access to coronavirus vaccines, tests and treatments for everyone who needs them, anywhere, is the only way out’. This statement by Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, ... -
COVID-19, mental health and ethnic minorities
Smith, Katharine A; Cipriani, Andrea (2020-07)There is little formal guidance for the busy clinician in balancing different risks for individual mental health patients and treating appropriately. To fill this gap, we propose three core actions that may help: 1. ... -
Explainable artificial intelligence for mental health through transparency and interpretability for understandability
Smith, Katharine A; Cipriani, Andrea (2023-01)The literature on artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) in mental health and psychiatry lacks consensus on what “explainability” means. In the more general XAI (eXplainable AI) literature, there has been ... -
How pharmacist prescribers can help meet the mental health consequences of COVID-19
Macdonald, Orla; Smith, Katharine A; Marven, Michael; Broughton, Nick; Geddes, John R; Cipriani, Andrea (2020-11)We suggest that Mental Health Trusts should urgently develop prescribing roles for specialist mental health pharmacists, which are integrated within mental health teams. In these roles, prescribing pharmacists can ... -
Modelling suicide in bipolar disorders: Limitations and opportunities
Smith, Katharine A; Cipriani, Andrea; Hawton, Keith (2018-07)Commentary on: Malhi GS, Outhred T, Das P et al. Modeling suicide in bipolar disorders. Bipolar Disord. 2018. In their paper in this issue, Malhi et al highlight a key clinical area; whilst suicide rates are increased in ... -
Perinatal mental health and COVID-19: Navigating a way forward
Smith, Katharine A; Cipriani, Andrea (2022-11)The COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath have increased pre-existing inequalities and risk factors for mental disorders in general, but perinatal mental disorders are of particular concern. They are already underdiagnosed ... -
Teaching telepsychiatry skills: building on the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic to enhance mental health care in the future
Smith, Katharine A; Cipriani, Andrea (2022-03)COVID-19 has accelerated the use of telehealth and technology in mental health care, creating new avenues to increase both access to and quality of care. As video visits, synchronous telehealth, become more routine the ... -
Vitruvian plot: a visualisation tool for multiple outcomes in network meta-analysis
Ostinelli, Edoardo; Zangani, Caroline; Smith, Katharine A; Cipriani, Andrea (2022-05)Objective A network meta-analysis (NMA) usually assesses multiple outcomes across several treatment comparisons. The Vitruvian plot aims to facilitate communication of multiple outcomes from NMAs to patients and ... -
A web-based clinical decision tool to support treatment decision-making in psychiatry: a pilot focus group study with clinicians, patients and carers
Smith, Katharine A; Attenburrow, Mary Jane; Henshall, Catherine; Zlodre, Jakov; Kelly, Kathleen; Broome, Matthew R.; Shaw, Susan; Barrera, Alvaro; Molodynski, Andrew; Reid, Alastair; Geddes, John R; Cipriani, Andrea (2017)Background Treatment decision tools have been developed in many fields of medicine, including psychiatry, however benefits for patients have not been sustained once the support is withdrawn. We have developed a web-based ...