Cardiovascular risk screening of patients with serious mental illness or use of antipsychotics in family practice.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with serious mental illness (SMI) and patients on antipsychotics (AP) have an elevated risk for cardiovascular diseases. In the Netherlands, the mental healthcare for these patients is increasingly taken care of by family practitioners (FP) as a result of a shift from secondary to primary care. Therefore, it is essential to increase our knowledge regarding the characteristics of this patient group and the (somatic) care provided by their FPs. The aim was to examine the rate of cardiovascular risk screening in patients with SMI or the use of AP in family practice.

Methods

We performed a retrospective cohort study of 151.238 patients listed in 24 family practices in the Netherlands. From electronic medical records we extracted data concerning diagnoses, mea

SUBMITTER: Jakobs KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7391510 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature