Association of Primary Care Consultation Patterns With Early Signs and Symptoms of Psychosis.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Primary care is an important part of the care pathway for patients with psychosis; therefore, primary care physicians need to be able to accurately identify those at clinical high risk of psychosis. The difficulty of this task is increased because clinical high-risk symptoms are frequently nonspecific to psychosis.

Objective

To determine whether the consultation patterns for a prespecified set of symptoms can be used to identify primary care patients who later developed a psychotic illness.

Design, setting, and participants

This nested case-control study used primary care consultation data collected from 530 primary care practices in 13 UK regions from January 1, 2000, through September 30, 2009. Participants included 11 690 adults with a diagnosis of psych

SUBMITTER: Sullivan SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6324409 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature