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COVID-19, mental health and ethnic minorities
(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. ...
Modelling suicide in bipolar disorders: Limitations and opportunities
(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 ...
How pharmacist prescribers can help meet the mental health consequences of COVID-19
(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 ...
A web-based clinical decision tool to support treatment decision-making in psychiatry: a pilot focus group study with clinicians, patients and carers
(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fields of medicine, including psychiatry, however benefits for patients have not been sustained once the support is withdrawn.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 ...
COVID-19 vaccines, hesitancy and mental health
(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 and substance use disorders: a review of international guidelines for frontline healthcare workers of addiction services
(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 and mental health: a transformational opportunity to apply an evidence-based approach to clinical practice and research
(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 ...
Perinatal mental health and COVID-19: Navigating a way forward
(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 ...
Explainable artificial intelligence for mental health through transparency and interpretability for understandability
(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 ...
Teaching telepsychiatry skills: building on the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic to enhance mental health care in the future
(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 ...