Improving physical health monitoring for patients with chronic mental health problems who receive antipsychotic medications

Improving physical health monitoring for patients with chronic mental health problems who receive antipsychotic medications
N Abdallah, R Conn, A Latif Marini
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2016;5: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u210300.w4189

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Improving physical health for people taking antipsychotic medication

"The combination of interventions has created an improvement in monitoring and changes appear to be sustained throughout the project." 

Improving physical health for people taking antipsychotic medication in the Community Learning Disabilities Service
I Hall, A Shah
BMJ Quality Improvement Report 2016;5: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u209539.w3933

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Monitoring of physical health parameters on a child and adolescent mental health unit receiving antipsychotic therapy

"In the adolescent unit, we identified a significant lack of physical health monitoring in this high risk age group. A single paged prompt sheet has been shown to significantly improve physical health monitoring in the majority of parameters."

Monitoring of physical health parameters for inpatients on a child and adolescent mental health unit receiving regular antipsychotic therapy
N Pasha, S Saeed, K Drewek
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2015;4: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u202645.w3700

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Quality improvement in resident education

"This resident physician-led quality improvement project was conducted with aims to improve the health of youth prescribed atypical antipsychotic medications by increasing physician monitoring for metabolic side effects, while simultaneously educating trainees in quality improvement methodology."

Quality improvement in resident education: a pilot project to mitigate metabolic side effects from atypical antipsychotic medications in youth
J Jeffrey
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2015;4: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u208804.w3544

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