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CRIS / MindLinc Behavioral Health Electronic Medical Record
- The CRIS Suite:Clinical Research Information System (CRIS) is a comprehensive electronic behavioral health care management system. CRIS seamlessly integrates clinical care at all levels, regulatory management, and clinical research. CRIS employs a clinical rules engine to help guide clinical practices and creates a clinical outcomes data warehouse for retrospective decision support for clinical, administrative and financial support.
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Retrospective Data Analysis
- Nature of the Data
- Retrospective Data Analysis can be done on de-identified data collected during routine patient care. CRIS documents various aspects of a patient's visit and stores the information in distinct files. As each of the aspects of a patient's history—whether it be medicines, diagnosis, demographic characteristics of the patient, treatment outcomes or adverse event, is measured in unique units, data from each facet are stored in separate files which may be merged with each other to provide a complete record of the treatment. Patient data are linked by an ID number and visit number.
- The Analytic Sample
- In order to comply with HIPAA requirements regarding the analysis of medical records, the data in this database are anonymized. This process permits the analysis of the data without a requirement of securing approval from the Institutional Review Board.
- In this process, all indications of a patient's identity are either removed (e.g. name) or modified (e.g. dates) to prevent any ability to link the data to the actual person. The data are anonymized periodically, and new generations produced to replace earlier ones. Each generation is a superset of each preceding one, though the anonymization process prevents any linking across generations of data. Not ever entry in CRIS is included in the analytic sample. Only those visits identified through billing codes as involving medication management or therapy are included. Furthermore, only those visits occurring since January 1, 2001, are included. The current analytic sample runs from January, 2001, to May, 2008.
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Patient Surveys / Prospective Research
- Patient/Family and Clinical Treatment Survey System (PACTS) Patient/Family and Clinical Treatment Survey System (PACTS) provides an easy-to-setup and manage and easy-to-use web-based survey tool designed to capture patient/caregiver self-rated surveys/scales as well as clinician rated surveys/scales.
- The PACTS system consists of three main modules. The survey system a user friendly web based application with branching, and validation logic. The administrative module used to enter new clients, initiate visits, view historical clinical data and reports. The third module is the management software application called clinical coordinator. The clinical coordinator includes tools for end user to create/modify surveys, with branching logic and validation rules. In addition the clinical coordinator manages all study setup including, visit schedules and security.
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Mental Health Information
- Psychiatric Disorders
- Mental Illness is a broad generic label for a category of illnesses that may include affective or emotional instability, behavioral dysregulation, and/or cognitive dysfunction or impairment.
- Psychotropic Medications List
- A psychoactive drug or psychotropic substance is a chemical substance that acts primarily upon the central nervous system where it alters brain function, resulting in temporary changes in perception, mood, consciousness and behavior.
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition, Text Revision
- The DSM-IV-TR is a manual published by the American Psychiatric Association and includes all currently recognized mental health disorders.
- Critically Appraised Topics
- Quest/EBM are a critical reviews of scientific literature are designed for training purposes.
- Psychiatric Textbook
- Psychiatric Textbook is a new project to create a free textbook of general psychiatry. A collaborative textbook, can accommodate the speed of discovery of information in the field of behavioral health and the need to dynamically update the information on a continuous basis.
- Residents
- General information for Psychiatry and Psychology residents.
