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ReviewTranslational psychiatry2024

Optimising the use of electronic medical records for large scale research in psychiatry.

Danielle Newby, Niall Taylor, Dan W Joyce, Laura M Winchester

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Review in Translational psychiatry, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Big data and psychiatry: advances, constraints and future directions.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2026
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  17. Association of Anxiety with Uncinate Fasciculus Lesion Burden in Multiple Sclerosis.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Danielle NewbyNuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Niall TaylorDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Dan W JoyceDepartment of Primary Care and Mental Health and Civic Health, Innovation Labs, Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
Laura M WinchesterDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. laura.winchester@psych.ox.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0003-3826-7694

Funding

DH | National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) BRC-1215-20005DH | National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) NIHR-AI-AWARD0-2183RCUK | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) EP/S02428X/1Rosetrees Trust M937
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The explosion and abundance of digital data could facilitate large-scale research for psychiatry and mental health. Research using so-called "real world data"-such as electronic medical/health records-can be resource-efficient, facilitate rapid hypothesis generation and testing, complement existing evidence (e.g. from trials and evidence-synthesis) and may enable a route to translate evidence into clinically effective, outcomes-driven care for patient populations that may be under-represented. However, the interpretation and processing of real-world data sources is complex because the clinically important 'signal' is often contained in both structured and unstructured (narrative or "free-text") data. Techniques for extracting meaningful information (signal) from unstructured text exist and have advanced the re-use of routinely collected clinical data, but these techniques require cautious evaluation. In this paper, we survey the opportunities, risks and progress made in the use of electronic medical record (real-world) data for psychiatric research.

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Electronic Health RecordsPsychiatryBiomedical ResearchHumansMental Disorders

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PMID38824136
PMCPMC11144247

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