Duke Behavioral Health Informatics Announces Dual Diagnoses, Evidence-Based Study
Raleigh, NC – July 11, 2007 – Duke University’s Behavioral Health Informatics Division, a leading developer of clinical information systems for Behavioral Healthcare, today announced its collaboration with Robert Drake MD and the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center on a Co-Occurring Disorders Evidence-Based Practice Study sponsored by the West Institute. The 24-month study starting August 2007 tests promising psychosocial and pharmaceutical interventions for substance abuse among people with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. The long-range goal is to develop treatment algorithms for co-occurring disorders that can be integrated into decisions support systems for providers and consumers.
Community Connections, a comprehensive mental health service agency in Washington, DC will enroll over 300 clients and use Duke’s CNS Single Source clinical trials software to capture client study data.
About Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center
The Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center (PRC) was established in 1987 as a public-academic liaison involving the New Hampshire Division of Behavioral Health and the Dartmouth Medical School. The PRC conducts interdisciplinary research on services for individuals who have serious mental illness, primarily schizophrenia spectrum and bipolar disorders. The PRC specializes in:
- developing effective interventions under research conditions
- translating these interventions into actual mental health service practices
- evaluating their effectiveness in routine practice settings.
PRC research incorporates multiple scientific perspectives, such as clinical, economic, and ethnographic. The PRC works with efficacy and services researchers to address the needs of multiple stakeholders through effectiveness research in routine practice settings. Vist Dartmouth on the web at http://dms.dartmouth.edu/prc.
About Duke Behavioral Health Informatics
Duke Behavioral Health Informatics is built on the principles of offering quality products and reliable service, designed to work in real clinical situations. Clinical Research Information System (CRIS) is the only EMR created by practicing psychiatrists at Duke University, a nationally recognized research institution, giving it the unique ability to simultaneously address the needs of clinicians, system managers, researchers, and patients alike.
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