Reilly, S;
Planner, C;
Hann, M;
Reeves, D;
Nazareth, I;
Lester, H;
(2012)
The role of primary care in service provision for people with severe mental illness in the United Kingdom.
PLoS One
, 7
(5)
, Article e36468. 10.1371/journal.pone.0036468.
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Abstract
Severe mental illness is a serious and potentially life changing set of conditions. This paper describes and analyses patient characteristics and service usage over one year of a representative cohort of people with a diagnosis of severe mental illness across England, including contacts with primary and secondary care and continuity of care.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The role of primary care in service provision for people with severe mental illness in the United Kingdom. |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0036468 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0036468 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2012 Reilly et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. PMCID: PMC3352919 This study was funded by the National Institute for Health Research School for Primary Care Research [http://www.nihr.ac.uk/research/Pages/programmes_primary_care_research.aspx]. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. |
| Keywords: | Adult, Aged, Continuity of Patient Care, Female, Great Britain, Humans, Male, Mental Disorders, Middle Aged, Primary Health Care, Severity of Illness Index |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Primary Care and Population Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1356853 |
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