Pragmatic Psychiatric Epidemiology—If You Can’t Count It, It Won’t Count

In a recent Editorial in JAMA Psychiatry, Paulus¹ called for a greater focus on evidence-based pragmatic psychiatry (EPP).¹ Broadly defined, EPP foregrounds the needs of stakeholders and focuses on tractable research questions that are likely to result in beneficial pragmatic outcomes. Paulus has asked that we explore this topic from the perspective of psychiatric epidemiology.