title: The psychiatric case register: noble past, challenging present, but exciting future.
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.
authors.forename: Gayan
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Perera
authors.forename: Mishael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Soremekun
authors.forename: Gerome
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Breen
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Stewart
mesh_terms: D006302:Health Services Research / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012042:Registries