TY - JOUR
T1 - The Australian Early Psychosis Collaborative Consortium (AEPCC)
T2 - Improving Clinical Care in Early Psychosis
AU - Thompson, Andrew
AU - Fitzsimons, Joanna
AU - Killackey, Eoin
AU - Ahern, Susannah
AU - Amminger, Paul
AU - Alvarez-Jimenez, Mario
AU - Berk, Michael
AU - Cotton, Sue
AU - McNeil, John
AU - McGorry, Patrick
AU - Nelson, Barnaby
AU - O'Donoghue, Brian
AU - Ratheesh, Aswin
AU - Rickwood, Debra
AU - Yung, Alison
AU - Wood, Stephen
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The AEPCC initiative is supported by the Wellcome Trust (218254/Z/19/Z).
Publisher Copyright:
© The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists 2023.
PY - 2023/6
Y1 - 2023/6
N2 - Objectives: The field of early psychosis has undergone considerable expansion over the last few decades and has a strong evidence base of effectiveness. Like all areas of healthcare, however, early psychosis services need to more consistently deliver higher quality care to achieve better outcomes for patients and families. A national clinical research infrastructure is urgently required to enable the sector to deliver the highest quality care and expand and translate evidence more quickly and efficiently. This paper describes the establishment of the Australian Early Psychosis Collaborative Consortium (AEPCC) that aims to achieve this. Conclusion: AEPCC is the first of its kind in Australia (and internationally). It will deliver the required clinical research infrastructure through the implementation of a clinical quality registry, clinical trials and translation network, and lived experience network. AEPCC will provide a critical resource to better understand the state of early psychosis care, and trial new interventions on a scale that has not previously been possible in Australia.
AB - Objectives: The field of early psychosis has undergone considerable expansion over the last few decades and has a strong evidence base of effectiveness. Like all areas of healthcare, however, early psychosis services need to more consistently deliver higher quality care to achieve better outcomes for patients and families. A national clinical research infrastructure is urgently required to enable the sector to deliver the highest quality care and expand and translate evidence more quickly and efficiently. This paper describes the establishment of the Australian Early Psychosis Collaborative Consortium (AEPCC) that aims to achieve this. Conclusion: AEPCC is the first of its kind in Australia (and internationally). It will deliver the required clinical research infrastructure through the implementation of a clinical quality registry, clinical trials and translation network, and lived experience network. AEPCC will provide a critical resource to better understand the state of early psychosis care, and trial new interventions on a scale that has not previously been possible in Australia.
KW - clinical quality registry
KW - clinical trials network
KW - early psychosis
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85159176018&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/10398562231174691
DO - 10.1177/10398562231174691
M3 - Article
C2 - 37171091
AN - SCOPUS:85159176018
SN - 1039-8562
VL - 31
SP - 306
EP - 308
JO - Australasian Psychiatry
JF - Australasian Psychiatry
IS - 3
ER -
