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Open Access 01-12-2023 | Care | Correspondence

Importance of accurate and accessible recording of healthcare contacts in mental health

Authors: Ruth H. Jack, Carol A. C. Coupland, Rebecca M. Joseph, Chris Hollis, Richard Morriss, Roger David Knaggs, Andrea Cipriani, Samuele Cortese, Julia Hippisley-Cox

Published in: BMC Medicine | Issue 1/2023

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Thank you for drawing our attention to the correspondence article by Taxiarchi et al. [1]. Our original study [2] used linked primary care electronic health records (QResearch) and secondary care data (Hospital Episode Statistics) to assess whether there were records of children and young people (CYP) visiting NHS-funded paediatric or psychiatric specialists in secondary care within the 12 months before or up to 6 months after their first primary care antidepressant prescription. …

Taxiarchi VP, Chew-Graham CA, Pierce M. Substantially more children receiving antidepressants see a specialist than reported by Jack et al. BMC Med. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-023-03043-x.

Jack RH, Joseph RM, Coupland C. et al. Secondary care specialist visits made by children and young people prescribed antidepressants in primary care: a descriptive study using the QResearch database. BMC Med. 2020;18,93. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-020-01560-7.

Walkup JT, Strawn JR. High-quality antidepressant prescribing: please consider whether “perfection is the enemy of progress.” BMC Med. 2020;18:150. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-020-01621-x.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral

Joseph RM, Jack RH, Hollis C, Coupland C. High-quality antidepressant prescribing in children and young people: value of observational research. 2020. https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4992928. Accessed 16 Aug 2023.

Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. Mental Health Data Set and CPRD primary care data Documentation (set 18). 2019. https://cprd.com/sites/default/files/2022-02/Documentation_MHDS_set18_v1.4.pdf. Accessed 16 Aug 2023.

Title: Importance of accurate and accessible recording of healthcare contacts in mental health
Authors: Ruth H. Jack
Carol A. C. Coupland
Rebecca M. Joseph
Chris Hollis
Richard Morriss
Roger David Knaggs
Andrea Cipriani
Samuele Cortese
Julia Hippisley-Cox
Publication date: 01-12-2023
Publisher: BioMed Central
Keyword: Care
Published in: BMC Medicine / Issue 1/2023
Electronic ISSN: 1741-7015
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-023-03044-w

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