Pragmatic trial design of an intervention to reduce cardiovascular risk in people with serious mental illness.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cardiovascular (CV) disease is the leading cause of death for people with serious mental illness (SMI), but clinicians are often slow to address this risk.

Methods/design

78 Midwestern primary care clinics were randomized to receive or not receive access to a clinical decision support (CDS) tool. Between March 2016 and September 2018, primary care clinicians (PCPs) received CDS alerts during visits with adult patients with SMI who met minimal inclusion criteria and had at least one CV risk factor not at goal. The PCP CDS included a summary of six modifiable CV risk factors and patient-specific treatment recommendations. Psychiatrists received CDS alerts during their next visit with an eligible patient with SMI that alerted them to an elevated body mass index or re

SUBMITTER: Rossom RC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7263956 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature