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November 7, 2016Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine

Establishing a physical health monitoring service for patients on depot antipsychotic medication

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Why the study?

Does a dedicated multidisciplinary health monitoring clinic improve the recording of physical health parameters and blood tests in patients on depot antipsychotic medication?

Population

Patients receiving antipsychotics in long-acting injectable form in a catchment area of ~36,000 in Ireland.

Comparison

Twice-yearly, multidisciplinary health… vs Pre-implementation (historical control)

Design

Cohort

Follow-up

1 year

Authors

MGMelissa GillCavan General HospitalKMKevin J. McKennaDundalk Institute of TechnologyMMMacDara McCauleyOur Lady of Lourdes Hospital

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Overview

Dedicated clinics may boost monitoring compliance in depot antipsychotic patients; leaves open scalable outcome benefits.

Structured PICO

Does a dedicated multidisciplinary health monitoring clinic improve the recording of physical health parameters and blood tests in patients on depot antipsychotic medication?

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Population
Patients receiving antipsychotics in long-acting injectable form in a catchment area of ~36,000 in Ireland.
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Intervention
Twice-yearly, multidisciplinary health monitoring clinic
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Comparator
Pre-implementation (historical control)
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Outcome
Proportion of patients attending the clinic who had blood test monitoring and physical parameters recordedsurrogate

Establishing a dedicated multidisciplinary clinic significantly improved physical health and blood test monitoring for patients on depot antipsychotics.

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Gill et al. (2016) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a711fd05671bbf00bc2d50ehttps://doi.org/10.1017/ipm.2016.41
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