The Effectiveness of a Specialized Primary Care Medical Home for Patients with Serious Mental Illness.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are unmet primary care needs among people with serious mental illness that might be improved with integrated care and medical care management. Many healthcare organizations have attempted to address this problem, but few interventions have been rigorously studied and found to be effective.

Objective

Study the implementation and effectiveness of a novel, specialized primary care medical home designed to improve the healthcare of patients with serious mental illness.

Design, setting, and participants

Clustered controlled trial for a median of 401 days. One Veterans Health Administration medical center was assigned to intervention and two were assigned to usual care (control). Thirty-nine clinicians and managers were included in the study, as well as 331

SUBMITTER: Young AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9550991 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature