The psychiatric case register: noble past, challenging present, but exciting future.
editorial · Level V
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Abstract
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.
Medical subject headings
- Psychiatry
- Registries