The psychiatric case register: noble past, challenging present, but exciting future
- 1 September 2009
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 195 (3), 191-193
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.109.068452
Abstract
Case registers have been fundamental to mental health research from the early asylum studies onwards. Having declined in popularity over the past 20 years, they are likely to see a resurgence of interest with the advent of electronic clinical records and the technological capacity to derive anonymised databases from these.Keywords
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