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Table 5 Health care provision for patients with SMI following the extended consultations

From: Introducing extended consultations for patients with severe mental illness in general practice: Results from the SOFIA feasibility study

 

All patients (N = 38)

Psychotic disorder (n = 16)

Bipolar disorder (n = 18)

Depression (n = 4)

Any change to care, n %

31 (82)

14 (88)

14 (78)

3 (75)

- medication changes, n (%)

4 (11)

3 (19)

0 (0)

1 (25)

- changes in diagnoses, n (%)

1 (3)

0 (0)

1 (6)

0 (0)

- referralsa, n (%)

10 (26)

6 (38)

3 (17)

1 (25)

- other care in practice, n(%)

20 (53)

9 (56)

10 (56)

1 (25)

- more frequent care in practice, n (%)

12 (32)

4 (25)

7 (39)

1 (25)

  1. - Categories are not mutually exclusive; e.g. one patient could both be referred and change medication
  2. aWhen one patient had more than one referral, only one of the referrals count