Romeo, Renee, Knapp, Martin, Tyrer, P., Crawford, M., Oliver-Africano, P.
Background: Antipsychotic drugs are used in the routine treatment of adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) and challenging behaviour in the UK despite limited evidence of their effectiveness....
Malone, Darren, Marriott, S., Newton-Howes, G., Simmonds, S., Tyrer, P.
Background: Closure of asylums and institutions for the mentally ill, coupled with government policies focusing on reducing the number of hospital beds for people with severe mental illness in favor...
Generalised anxiety disorder (2006)
Generalised anxiety disorder is a persistent and common disorder, in which the patient has unfocused worry and anxiety that is not connected to recent stressful events, although it can be aggravated...
Oliver, P.C., Piachaud, J., Tyrer, P., Regan, A., Dack, M., Bakala, A., ...
Oliver, P.C., Piachaud, J., Done, D.J., Regan, A., Cooray, S., Tyrer, P.
‘The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com '. Copyright Blackwell Publishing. DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2788.2002.00408.x [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA]
Day hospital versus outpatient care for psychiatric disorders (Cochrane Review) (2002)
Marshall, M., Crowther, R., Almaraz-Serrano, A., Creed, F., Sledge, W., Kluiter, H., ...
To assess the effectiveness and feasibility of day hospital versus in-patient care for people with acute psychiatric disorders, by carrying out three systematic reviews: (1) acute day hospital care...
Hassiotis, A., Ukoumunne, O.C., Byford, S., Tyrer, P., Harvey, K., Piachaud, J., ...
Background: Little research has been carried out on the benefits of intensive case management (ICM) for people with borderline IQ and severe mental illness. Aims: To compare outcome and costs of care...
Day hospital versus out-patient care for psychiatric disorders (2001)
Marshall, M., Crowther, R., Almaraz-Serrano, A., Tyrer, P.
BACKGROUND: This review considers the use of day hospitals as an alternative to out-patient care. Three types of day hospital are covered by the review: 'day treatment programmes', 'day care centres'...
Day hospital versus out-patient care for psychiatric disorders (2001)
Marshall, M., Crowther, R., Almaraz-Serrano, A., Tyrer, P.
BACKGROUND: This review considers the use of day hospitals as an alternative to out-patient care. Three types of day hospital are covered by the review: 'day treatment programmes', 'day care centres'...
Outcome of patients with severe mental illness and borderline intellectual functioning (2000)
Hassiotis, A., Ukoumunne, O., Byford, S., Tyrer, P., Harvey, K., Piachaud, J., ...
Background: Intensive case management is said to be a highly effective model of community care for patients with severe mental illness. However recent studies have failed to show clear advantage of...
Hassiotis, A., Ukoumunne, O., Tyrer, P., Piachaud, J., Gilvarry, C., Harvey, K., ...
Background: Low cognitive ability and developmental delays have been implicated in the causation of mental illness. Aims: To examine the prevalence, socio-demographic characteristics, psychopathology...
Intensive case management for psychotic patients with borderline intelligence (1999)
Tyrer, P., Hassiotis, A., Ukoumunne, O., Piachaud, J., Harvey, K.
Patients with recurrent psychotic disorder and borderline learning disability who were randomly assigned intensive case management spent less than half the subsequent time in hospital than those who...
Hassiotis, A., Tyrer, P., Cicchetti, D.
Objective: It is now widely recognised that personality disorders play a significant role in psychiatric practice. This study was set up to examine the diagnostic accuracy of the assessment of...
Instrumental psychosis: the Good Soldier Svejk syndrome.
Tyrer, P, Babidge, N, Emmanuel, J, Yarger, N, Ranger, M
The possession of severe mental illness, mainly schizophrenia and affective psychosis, may be perceived in positive terms. We have identified a group of patients, most of them with a history of...
Drug treatment of psychiatric patients in general practice.
The prescribing of psychotropic drugs by general practitioners was assessed by analysing the drug treatment of all patients referred from general practice to a psychiatric outpatient clinic over four...
Instrumental psychosis: the Good Soldier Svejk syndrome.
Tyrer, P, Babidge, N, Emmanuel, J, Yarger, N, Ranger, M
The possession of severe mental illness, mainly schizophrenia and affective psychosis, may be perceived in positive terms. We have identified a group of patients, most of them with a history of...
Drug treatment of psychiatric patients in general practice.
The prescribing of psychotropic drugs by general practitioners was assessed by analysing the drug treatment of all patients referred from general practice to a psychiatric outpatient clinic over four...
Integrated hospital and community psychiatric services and use of inpatient beds.
Tyrer, P., Turner, R., Johnson, A. L.
The impact of introducing a divisional psychiatric service based in the community in Nottingham in 1981 on adult psychiatric admissions (patients aged 15-65) was examined with data from the...
The brief scale for anxiety: a subdivision of the comprehensive psychopathological rating scale.
Tyrer, P, Owen, R T, Cicchetti, D V
A rating scale suitable for recording anxious symptoms is described. It is a subdivision of the Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale and comprises 10 items, all of which are rated on a 7...
"Cold calling" in psychiatric follow up studies: is it justified?
Tyrer, P, Seivewright, H, Ferguson, B, Johnson, T
Objectives: To decide if cold calling was ethically justifiable and, if so, to set guidelines for researchers.
Early treated hypothyroidism: development at 3 years.
Murphy, G, Hulse, J A, Jackson, D, Tyrer, P, Glossop, J, Smith, I, ...
Eighty children from the North West and North East Thames Regional Health Authorities who had been identified as having congenital hypothyroidism either by neonatal screening (76 cases) or by...
Analysis of a long-term study of neurotic disorder, with insights into the process of non-response
Nicholas T. Longford, P. Tyrer, H. Seivewright
The paper studies the non-response process in a long-term study of neurotic dis-order by comparing the analysis based on the responses that were collected by the established practice of interviewing...
Randomised controlled trial of two models of care for discharged psychiatric patients.
Tyrer, P., Evans, K., Gandhi, N., Lamont, A., Harrison-Read, P., Johnson, T.
OBJECTIVE: To compare the clinical outcome and costs of care of psychiatric patients allocated to community multidisciplinary teams or to hospital based care programmes after discharge from inpatient...