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

TY - JOUR

T1 - The psychiatric case register: noble past, challenging present, but exciting future

AU - Perera, Gayan

AU - Soremekun, Mishael

AU - Breen, Gerome

AU - Stewart, Robert

PY - 2009/8/31

Y1 - 2009/8/31

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

U2 - 10.1192/bjp.bp.109.068452

DO - 10.1192/bjp.bp.109.068452

M3 - Editorial

SN - 1472-1465

VL - 195

SP - 191

EP - 193

JO - British Journal of Psychiatry

JF - British Journal of Psychiatry

IS - 3

ER -