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