Ray Fitzpatrick's research while affiliated with University of Oxford and other places

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Introduction Forensic mental health services provide care to people in secure psychiatric hospitals and specialised community teams. Measuring outcomes is important to ensure such services perform optimally, however existing measures are not sufficiently comprehensive and are rarely patient reported. Objectives To examine a novel instrument for me...
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We conducted a series of tests on the FORensic oUtcome Measure (FORUM), a novel tool for measuring outcomes in forensic mental health services, which consists of complementary patient-reported (FORUM-P) and clinician-reported instruments (FORUM-C). Inpatients and outpatients at a UK forensic psychiatric regional service completed the FORUM-P and me...
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Background: Measurement of outcomes in forensic mental health services is essential to ensure that these services are delivering good quality care and treatment. Instruments for outcome measurement should cover all important domains, be easy to implement in a routine clinical context and facilitate transfer of relevant information between clinicia...
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Background Outcome measurement in forensic mental health services can support service improvement, research, and patient progress evaluation. This systematic review aims to identify instruments available for use as outcome measures in this field and assess the evidence for the most common instruments, specific to the forensic context, which cover m...

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... As previously stated, this study can only be seen as a first glance into the analysis of the association between short leave and the treatment of individuals who have offended. Thomas et al., 2008; for an overview see Ryland et al., 2021). Furthermore, to be able to improve risk management strategies in forensic psychiatric institutions, a more detailed analysis of the field is required in future research. ...