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ReviewBJPsych international2025

The Royal College of Psychiatrists Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Surveillance System for rare events and disorders: highlighting the need for an international network for surveillance.

Muthukrishnan Venkatesan, Eleanor Smith, Marinos Kyriakopoulos, Aditya Narain Sharma

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Review in BJPsych international, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 authors.

Muthukrishnan VenkatesanSpeciality Trainee in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Newcastle and Gateshead Children and Young People's Service - Newcastle and Gateshead, Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Eleanor SmithConsultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Complex Neurodevelopmental Disorders Service, Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Marinos KyriakopoulosAssistant Professor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 1st Department of Psychiatry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Aditya Narain SharmaClinical Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle on Tyne, UK. Email: aditya.sharma@ncl.ac.uk.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4632-4521

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Commonly occurring mental health disorders have been well studied in terms of epidemiology, presentation, risk factors and management. However, rare or uncommon mental health disorders and events are harder to study. One way to do this is active surveillance. This article summarises how the Royal College of Psychiatrists Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Surveillance System was developed, as well as the key studies that have used the system and their impact, to make the case for a wider international surveillance unit for child and adolescent psychiatry. Keeping this surveillance active in different populations across the globe will add to existing knowledge and understanding of these uncommon disorders and events. This will in turn help in developing better frameworks for the identification and management for these disorders and events. It will also facilitate the sharing of ideas regarding current methodology, ethics, the most appropriate means of evaluating units and their potential applications.

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Child and adolescent psychiatryepidemiologyglobal mental healthlongitudinal datarare disorders and events

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PMID40290480
PMCPMC12022850

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