Dr Yehudit Bauernfreund , MSc, MRCPsych

Profile

I am a higher trainee in Old Age Psychiatry. I trained on the Academic Foundation Programme and completed an Academic Clinical Fellowship during my Core Psychiatry Training. I have an MSc in Dementia and Mental Health Sciences Research from UCL.

I am currently undertaking an NIHR doctoral fellowship, using mixed-methods to investigate inequalities in delirium detection and outcomes for people with severe mental illness, based at the Academic Centre for Healthy Ageing (ACHA), within Centre for Psychiatry & Mental Health.

I am continuing my clinical work alongside this in the Psychiatry Liaison Service at Whipps Cross Hospital.

Research

Research Interests:

I've been fascinated by delirium since my first clinical job - it's extremely common in hospitals yet there is so much we don't understand about it. I'm especially interested in understanding how we detect delirium in people with a background of mental illness, who are vulnerable to diagnostic overshadowing.

I’ve had research experience using large datasets to explore delirium incidence and associations for people with severe mental illness and testing interventions to improve delirium detection and management in real-world settings. 

Publications

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Outstanding publications

• Delirium risk and mortality in people with pre-existing severe mental illness: a retrospective cohort study using linked datasets in England | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
• Incidence and associations of hospital delirium diagnoses in 85,979 people with severe mental illness: A data linkage study - Bauernfreund - 2023 - Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica - Wiley Online Library
• TIME to think about delirium: improving detection and management on the acute medical unit | BMJ Open Quality