Premature Mortality among People with Severe Mental Illness – New Evidence from Linked Primary Care Data

Implementing evidence-based practices for people with severe mental illness.

Persons with severe mental illnesses (SMI) often lack access to effective treatments. The authors describe the Implementing Evidence-Based Practices (EBPs) Project, designed to increase access for people with SMI to empirically supported interventions. The EBP Project aims to improve access through development of standardized implementation packages, created in collaboration with different stak...

Homelessness among people with severe mental illness in Switzerland.

QUESTIONS UNDER STUDY This study addresses socio-demographic and clinical characteristics among homeless people in Switzerland admitted to inpatient care, the use of and pathways to inpatient care by this group and, the extent to which psychiatric disorders contribute to the risk of homelessness. METHODS Based on data of a psychiatric case register we analysed 16247 people consecutively refer...

Harnessing primary care to enhance recovery from severe mental illness.

The meaning of work in people with severe mental illness (SMI) in Iran

  Background: Work is the key component for most people in regard to financial, social and wellbeing matters. Employment is an important factor underpinning mental health disorders. However, unemployment remains an unsolved issue worldwide. Numerous studies have focused on employment outcomes in people with severe mental illness (SMI) but, only a few have explored their perspective on employmen...

Cardiovascular disease treatment among patients with severe mental illness: a data linkage study between primary and secondary care

BACKGROUND Suboptimal treatment of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) among patients with severe mental illness (SMI) may contribute to physical health disparities. AIM To identify SMI characteristics associated with meeting CVD treatment and prevention guidelines. DESIGN AND SETTING Population-based electronic health record database linkage between primary care and the sole provider of secondar...