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Variation in spend on young mental health across Clinical Commissioning Groups in England: a cross-sectional observational study
(2019-08)
Objectives To investigate whether the rate of spend
on child and adolescent mental health is influenced
by demand for other competing services in local
commissioning decisions.
Design Analysis of spend data by Clinical ...
The side effect profile of Clozapine in real world data of three large mental hospitals
(2020-01)
Objective: Mining the data contained within Electronic Health Records (EHRs) can potentially generate a greater understanding of medication effects in the real world, complementing what we know from Randomised control ...
What does COVID mean for UK mental health care?
(2020-06)
The coronavirus disease (COVID) pandemic is the biggest disaster United Kingdom has seen for many decades. Not since World War II has there been such risk, displacement and change affecting the whole community. This is the ...
Changes in daily mental health service use and mortality at the commencement and lifting of COVID-19 'lockdown' policy in 10 UK sites: a regression discontinuity in time design
(2021-05)
Objectives: To investigate changes in daily mental health (MH) service use and mortality in response to the introduction and the lifting of the COVID-19 'lockdown' policy in Spring 2020.
Design: A regression discontinuity ...
Interventions to reduce self-harm on in-patient wards: systematic review
(2021-04)
Background
Incidents of self-harm are common on psychiatric wards. There are a wide variety of therapeutic, social and environmental interventions that have shown some promise in reducing self-harm in in-patient settings, ...
Systematic review of interventions to improve constant observation on adult inpatient psychiatric wards
(2020-02)
Constant observation is frequently conducted on inpatient psychiatric units to manage patients at risk of harming themselves or others. Despite its widespread use, there is little evidence of the efficacy of the practice ...
Risks, roles and responsibilities: Evaluating falls in inpatient mental healthcare settings for older people
(2022-02)
Background
Despite the large number of falls in mental health settings, we know little about what contributes to falls. The main aim of the study is to explore how fall risk, prevention and management is understood and ...
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Global Delivery of Mental Health Services and Telemental Health: Systematic Review
(2022-08)
The COVID-19 pandemic required mental health services around the world to adapt quickly to the new restrictions and regulations put in place to reduce the risk of transmission. As face-to-face contact became difficult, ...
Improving diabetes care: findings from the first National Diabetes Inpatient Audit undertaken in a mental health setting
(2023-05)
Background/Aims
There has been no national audit of diabetes care provided in mental heath inpatient settings. This research was undertaken to reveal a snapshot of prevalence, services provided and the education delivered ...
What I stand for as BMJ Mental Health editor
(2023-02)
NA - Editorial