RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
Dr Partha Das
MSc (Evidence-Based Health Care, Oxford University) | FRANZCP | AFRACMA | MD (PGIMER, India)
Consultant Psychiatrist and Director (Rohan Research)
SECURE EXTENDED CARE UNIT RESEARCH SERIES
The first Australian study to characterise patients referred to a non-forensic Secure Extended Care Unit. This three-paper series examines sociodemographic and clinical profiles, psychosocial and forensic characteristics, predictors of acceptance, and re-referral patterns across a 5-year cohort (2019–2023) at Austin Health's 25-bed SECU.
Paper 1 of 3 [Published 2025]
Social demographics and clinical characteristics of referred adult mental health patients to an Australian SECU
Das P, Robertson E, Harpwood V, Tierney S
International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2025 · doi:10.1177/00207640251343171
Das P, Robertson E, Harpwood V, Tierney S
International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2026 · doi:10.1177/00207640261439746
Psychosocial and forensic characteristics of adult mental health patients referred to an Australian secure extended care unit and predictors of acceptance
Paper 2 of 3 [Published 2025]
Robertson E, Das P, Harpwood V, Tierney S
In preparation, 2026
Re-referral patterns to an Australian secure extended care unit: a retrospective cohort study
Paper 3 of 3 [In preparation — 2026]
HEPATITIS SCREENING IN PSYCHIATRIC INPATIENT SETTINGS — MHDHEP STUDY
Mental Health Department Hepatitis Education Program: examining bloodborne virus screening practices in a metropolitan Victorian psychiatric inpatient setting, and driving evidence toward a consensus statement on universal HCV screening.
Hepatitis B and C screening in psychiatric inpatient settings: a systematic analysis within the MHDHEP retrospective cohort
MHDHEP — Retrospective [In progress]
Das PP et al. · Austin Health / NEAMHS
Ethics approval: HREC/210-65/Austin-2025 · Metropolitan Victorian hospital
Consensus statement on HCV screening in Severe mental illness: a Delphi study
MHDHEP — Delphi consensus [In development]
Das PP et al.
Delphi methodology · Mental health clinicians · Australia
ECT LEGISLATION, PERSONALITY DISORDER REHABILITATION & CRISIS INTERVENTION — VICTORIA
Studies completed within Victorian public mental health services, spanning ECT governance following legislative reform, recovery-oriented residential care for borderline personality disorder, and community crisis intervention.
Change in ECT practice following the Mental Health Act 2014 in Victoria: a study from a metropolitan mental health service
ECT & Legislation [Published]
Das PP et al. · Collaboration with Aged Persons Mental Health, Director of ECT, ECT Nursing
Retrospective file review · Pre/post Mental Health Act 2014 (Victoria)
Das PP et al. · Collaboration with Allied Health and MIND Australia
Retrospective design · Admissions 2011–2016 · 12-month follow-up
Outcomes of a short-term recovery-oriented residential service for patients with borderline personality disorderer
BPD Recovery [Published]
Sociodemographic profile and 12-month outcomes following treatment by an acute community mental health crisis team
Crisis Intervention [Published]
Das PP et al. · Acute Community Mental Health Care Team
Retrospective cohort design · 12-month outcome · Community mental health
EARLY CAREER PUBLICATIONS — PGIMER CHANDIGARH (2009–2013)
Five peer-reviewed publications from the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, spanning addiction medicine, biological psychiatry, consultation–liaison psychiatry, and psychopharmacology. All abstracts and findings verified against PubMed records.
Elevated total cholesterol in severely depressed patients: role in cardiovascular risk?
Abuse of opium-containing Indian herbal medicines: a case report
Effectiveness of clozapine: a study from North India
Biological Psychiatry [2009 / 2010]
Das PP, Malhotra S, Chakrabarti S, Sharma S · Dept of Psychiatry & Dept of Biochemistry, PGIMER
World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 2010;11(2 Pt 2):321–328 · PMID: 19462342 · doi:10.3109/15622970902960889
Case Report · Addiction [2010]
Basu D, Das PP, Neogi R · PGIMER Chandigarh; R. G. Kar Medical College
The American Journal on Addictions, 2010;19(2):193–194 · doi:10.1111/j.1521-0391.2009.00016.x
Psychopharmacology [2010]
Dutta A, Grover S, Chakrabarti S, Kulhara P, Avasthi A, Basu D, Das P et al. · PGIMER, Chandigarh
Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 2010;3(1):16–19 · doi:10.1016/j.ajp.2009.12.002
Changing pattern of substance abuse in patients attending a de-addiction centre in north India (1978–2008)
Replication analysis for composition of the Delirium Motor Subtype Scale (DMSS) in a referral cohort from Northern India
Addiction Epidemiology [2012]
Basu D, Aggarwal M, Das PP, Mattoo SK, Kulhara P, Varma VK · PGIMER Chandigarh
Indian Journal of Medical Research, 2012;135(6):830–836 · PMID: 22825602
Grover S, Mattoo SK, Aarya KR, Das PP, Chakrabarty K, Trzepacz P, Gupta N, Meagher D · PGIMER Chandigarh (international collaboration)
Psychiatry Research, 2013;206(1):68–74 · PMID: 23021910 · doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2012.08.034
Consultation–Liaison [2013]