Kaiser Permanente
People with serious mental illness have high risk for type 2 diabetes due to multiple risk factors, including the metabolic side effects of psychotropic medications that are used to treat these conditions. Type 2 diabetes is preventable through lifestyle and pharmacological interventions, but many people with serious mental illness do not receive regular screening for type 2 diabetes risk. In many health care settings, clinical pharmacists are increasingly managing patients with serious mental illness and have expertise in monitoring the metabolic side effects of psychotropic medications. This study evaluates the feasibility and acceptability of using a diabetes prediction model that is based on electronic health record data (the MetSense risk flag) to alert clinical pharmacists about patients who are at high diabetes risk, prompting these clinicians to prioritize diabetes risk management services.
MetSense is a clinical decision support tool that is being developed to help clinicians prioritize diabetes risk management services for patients with serious mental illness who have high diabetes risk. This study seeks to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness of using the MetSense risk flag to prompt further evaluation of metabolic risk factors and to prioritize other diabetes risk management services, including diabetes risk screening, care coordination with patients' primary care physicians, and pharmacological management of diabetes risk. In this pragmatic,…
Inclusion Criteria: * Age 18 or older * Diagnosed with schizophrenia, another psychotic disorder, or bipolar disorder * Included in a clinical pharmacist population management program for serious mental illness within Kaiser Permanente Northern California
The MetSense risk flag alerts the clinician if the patient has high diabetes risk and prompts additional diabetes risk management.
Participants will receive usual care.
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