Investigating inequalities in patient outcomes for first-episode psychosis
Dasha Nicholls, Jobie Budd, Philippa Nunn, Paul French, Jo Smith, Veenu Gupta, Jonathan Holdship, Alan Quirk · 2024
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Dasha Nicholls and seven colleagues investigated unequal outcomes after a first episode of psychosis in England. Knowing where demographic groups fare differently is a first step to fixing care. The team used records from 6,813 patients in the National Clinical Audit of Psychosis for twenty twenty-one to twenty twenty-two. Symptomatic improvement was compared across age, ethnicity, and other groupings. Treatment uptake was measured alongside, to see whether unequal access explained unequal results.
Patients aged eighteen to twenty-four improved less, unless differences in intervention uptake were taken into account. Patients recorded as Black or Black British were also less likely to improve. Matching and regression methods isolated each factor's average effect. The twenty twenty-four findings point services toward the groups and treatments where inequality is generated, not just where it appears.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Dasha Nicholls, Jobie Budd, Philippa Nunn, Paul French, Jo Smith, Veenu Gupta, Jonathan Holdship, Alan Quirk |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |