Richard Hayes

Pennsylvania State University | Penn State · Department of Political Science

Obsessive and Compulsive Symptoms (OCS) or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in the context of schizophrenia or related disorders are of clinical importance as these are associated with a range of adverse outcomes. Natural Language Processing (NLP) applied to Electronic Health Records (EHRs) presents an opportunity to create large datasets to fac...

Background Treatment with paliperidone palmitate (PP) has been shown to reduce hospitalisation, however its effect on broader service use remains unknown. Our objectives were to describe and compare the health care professional (HCP) use of patients treated with 1-monthly PP before and after its initiation. Methods Data were sourced from South Lon...

Objectives Creation of linked mental health, social and education records for research to support evidence-based practice for regional mental health services. Setting The Clinical Record Interactive Search (CRIS) system was used to extract personal identifiers who accessed psychiatric services between September 2007 and August 2013. Participants...

Objectives To compare sample biases when linking education data to external datasets using opt in and opt out consent models for the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) – opt in, and the Case Register Interactive Search Child and Adolescent Mental Health sample (CRIS CAMHS) –opt out. Approach We compared demographic factors in the linked and unlinked po...

Little is known about the impact of personality disorder (PD) on the health of people living in the community. The authors set out to examine the association between PD and general health, using a cross-sectional survey of a representative community sample in London, UK. A total of 1,698 adults aged 16 years or over from 1,075 randomly selected hou...