Psychiatric Hospitals and Units In England and Wales. Statistical Report Series No. 12. (Pp. 92; illustrated; 92p.) HMSO: London. 1971. - The Nottingham Psychiatric Case Register Findings, 1962–1969. Statistical Report Series No. 13. (Pp. 47; illustrated; 65p.) Produced by the Department of Health and Social Security. HMSO: London. 1971.

1972 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 326-326 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitals ◽  
Case Register ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Psychiatric Case Register ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Psychiatric Case ◽  
Statistical Report

The Mortality Experience of Individuals on the Salford Psychiatric Case Register

1996 ◽  
Vol 168 (6) ◽  
pp. 772-779 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. N. Baxter
Keyword(s):  
Future Research ◽  
Historical Cohort ◽  
Case Register ◽  
Service Effectiveness ◽  
Psychiatric Case Register ◽  
Cohort Design ◽  
Psychiatric Case ◽  
Control Programmes ◽  
Expected Mortality

BackgroundSeveral studies, mainly non-UK based, have reported higher than expected mortality for individuals with mental illness. This investigation in Salford (England) was undertaken to determine local experiences.MethodAn historical cohort design was employed with record linkage to determine status at study end: maximum follow-up was 18 years. All 6952 individuals with schizophrenia, neuroses, affective or personality disorders, enrolled on the psychiatric case register between 1 January 1968 and 31 December 1975 were recruited: there were 199 exclusions. Death was the study end-point.ResultsObserved mortality was 65% higher than expected and elevated throughout the whole of follow-up. Mortality was highest in younger ages, females and subjects born locally. Circulatory disorders, injury and poisoning each caused approximately one-third of the excess deaths.ConclusionsDocumenting mortality risk has important applications for prioritisation, resource allocation, developing control programmes, evaluating service effectiveness, disease forecasting and future research.

scholarly journals The psychiatric case register: noble past, challenging present, but exciting future

2009 ◽  
Vol 195 (3) ◽  
pp. 191-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gayan Perera ◽  
Mishael Soremekun ◽  
Gerome Breen ◽  
Robert Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Mental Health Research ◽  
Case Register ◽  
Psychiatric Case Register ◽  
The Past ◽  
Technological Capacity ◽  
Psychiatric Case ◽  
Clinical Records

SummaryCase 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.

Accumulating long-stay in-patients in Salford: monitoring further progress

1979 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 567-572 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Fryers
Keyword(s):  
Term Study ◽  
Case Register ◽  
Psychiatric Case Register ◽  
Psychiatric Case ◽  
General Decline

SynopsisData derived from a psychiatric case-register are presented on the accumulation of new long-stay cases in Salford from 1967 to 1976. The analysis supports the general decline reported in an earlier shorter-term study except for the over 65s, where the trend was reversed. The implications of the findings are discussed.

The Influence of the 1968 Glossary on the Diagnoses of English Psychiatrists

1973 ◽  
Vol 123 (576) ◽  
pp. 527-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. E. Kendell
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
International Comparisons ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitals ◽  
International Classification Of Disease ◽  
Diagnostic Categories ◽  
7Th Edition ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Discharge Rates ◽  
Manpower Needs

Since 1949 the diagnoses given to all patients admitted to psychiatric hospitals in England and Wales have been collected and tabulated, initially by the General Register Office and more recently by the Ministry of Health and its successor the Department of Health and Social Security. These data are published regularly and have been used for many purposes—to follow trends in admission and discharge rates, to predict future bed and manpower needs, and in international comparisons. Before 1970 there was no official nomenclature and psychiatrists used whatever diagnostic terms they wished when completing the S.B.H.15 index cards provided for each patient (Department of Health and Social Security, 1970, Appendix A). In the Department of Health these diagnoses were converted into 3-digit numbers, using a complex code developed by the General Register Office (D.H.S.S., 1970, Appendix B), and finally these code numbers were grouped together to make them conform as well as possible with the nomenclature of the 7th edition of the International Classification of Disease (ICD 7). Inevitably this procedure was unsatisfactory. It was cumbersome; it only permitted a few broad diagnostic categories to be distinguished with any confidence; and it involved making a number of arbitrary assumptions about the relationship between the different nomenclatures involved.

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