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What are the prevalence, risk and protective factors, and course of illness for different combinations of psychosis and coexi...
What risk factors predict the onset of substance misuse in young people with psychosis?
What and how should training be provided to healthcare professionals working with people with psychosis and substance misuse?...
Is providing treatment for psychosis and substance misuse services within staffed accommodation more cost-effective than a co...
What service delivery models allow people with psychosis and coexisting substance misuse to remain living outside hospital?
Are interventions for psychosis or substance misuse clinically and cost effective when compared with standard care for people...
Are psychosocial interventions clinically and cost effective when compared with standard care for people with psychosis and c...
Are environmental interventions clinically and cost effective when compared with standard care for people with psychosis and ...
Are interventions for psychosis or substance misuse clinically and cost effective when compared with standard care for people...
Is clozapine clinically and cost effective when compared with other pharmacological interventions for people with psychosis a...
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Shared Learning
Improving the physical health of people with serious mental illness: A quality improvement approach
January 2017
SHAPE: Supporting Health And Promoting Exercise in Young People with Psychosis
January 2017
A Critical Evaluation of the implementation of NICE Quality Standard 80 in a specialist Early Intervention Service
September 2016
Don't Just Screen - Intervene.
January 2014
Cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis can be adapted and implemented for minority ethnic groups: A randomised controlled trial
November 2013
Development of a care pathway for Schizophrenia
January 2013
Delivering Family Interventions - The Meriden Family Programme
October 2011
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Structural neuroimaging techniques (either magnetic resonance imaging [MRI] or computed axial tomography [CT] scanning) are not recommended as a routine part of the initial investigations for the management of first-episode psychosis.
February 2008
Do not use biological or physical tests in routine screening for substance misuse in adults and young people with psychosis.
March 2011
Do not initiate regular combined antipsychotic medication, except for short periods (for example, when changing medication) for pschosis or schizophrenia in children and young people.
January 2013
Do not initiate regular combined antipsychotic medication, except for short periods (for example, when changing medication).
February 2014
Do not offer antipsychotic medication to people considered to be at increased risk of developing psychosis (i.e If a person is distressed, has a decline in social functioning and has: transient or attenuated psychotic symptoms; or other experiences or behaviour suggestive of possible psychosis; a first-degree relative with psychosis or schizophrenia) or with the aim of decreasing the risk of or preventing psychosis
February 2014
Do not start antipsychotic medication for a first presentation of sustained psychotic symptoms in primary care unless it is done in consultation with a consultant psychiatrist.
February 2014
Do not use a loading dose of antipsychotic medication (often referred to as 'rapid neuroleptisation').
February 2014
Do not initiate regular combined antipsychotic medication, except for short periods (for example, when changing medication).
February 2014
Do not routinely offer counselling and supportive psychotherapy (as specific interventions) to people with psychosis or schizophrenia. However, take service user preferences into account, especially if other more efficacious psychological treatments, such as CBT, family intervention and arts therapies, are not available locally.
February 2014
Do not offer adherence therapy (as a specific intervention) to people with psychosis or schizophrenia.
February 2014
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