Preventive Service Use Among People With and Without Serious Mental Illnesses.

ABSTRACT: INTRODUCTION:People with serious mental illnesses experience excess morbidity and premature mortality resulting from preventable conditions. The goal was to examine disparities in preventive care that might account for poor health outcomes. METHODS:In this retrospective cohort study, adults (N=803,276) served by Kaiser Permanente Northwest and federally qualified health centers/safety-net community health clinics were categorized into five groups: schizophrenia spectrum disorders, bipolar disorders/affective psychoses, anxiety disorders, nonpsychotic unipolar depression, and reference groups with no evidence of these specific mental illnesses. The primary outcome was overall preventive care-gap rate, the proportion of incomplete preventive services for which each patient was eligible in 20

SUBMITTER: Yarborough BJH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5736432 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature