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Computerised psychiatric case registers in Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Stephen Wood ,
Martin Elphick  and
Mike Sinclair
Stephen Wood
Affiliation:
United Medical & Dental Schools, Academic Psychiatry Unit, St Martin's Hospital, Canterbury CT1 1TD
Martin Elphick
Affiliation:
Fair Mile Hospital, Cholsey, Oxfordshire OX10 9HH
Mike Sinclair
Affiliation:
Mental Health Information Technology Department, Guy's Hospital, London SE1 9RT
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Case registers can provide useful data for research and service planning, but the older manually maintained registers were expensive and required special accommodation, staffing and support. Turning raw data into useful information was a laborious process and most systems could not accommodate ad hoc reports. Partly as a result of these shortcomings, and partly because of spending cuts, a number of case registers were closed in the 1980s (for example, see Hassall, 1991).

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 16 , Issue 7 , July 1992 , pp. 399 - 401
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1992

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