Effect of Enhanced Primary Care for People with Serious Mental Illness on Service Use and Screening.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Strategies are needed to better address the physical health needs of people with serious mental illness (SMI). Enhanced primary care for people with SMI has the potential to improve care of people with SMI, but evidence is lacking.

Objective

To examine the effect of a novel enhanced primary care model for people with SMI on service use and screening.

Design

Using North Carolina Medicaid claims data, we performed a retrospective cohort analysis comparing healthcare use and screening receipt of people with SMI newly receiving enhanced primary care to people with SMI newly receiving usual primary care. We used inverse probability of treatment weighting to estimate average differences in outcomes between the treatment and comparison groups adjusting for observe

SUBMITTER: Grove LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8041990 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature