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Metabolic Testing for Adults in a State Medicaid Program Receiving Antipsychotics: Remaining Barriers to Achieving Population Health Prevention Goals.
- Source :
- JAMA Psychiatry; Jul2016, Vol. 73 Issue 7, p721-730, 10p
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- <bold>Importance: </bold>Medicaid quality indicators track diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease screening in adults receiving antipsychotics and/or those with serious mental illness.<bold>Objective: </bold>To inform performance improvement interventions by evaluating the relative importance of patient, prescriber, and practice factors affecting metabolic testing.<bold>Design, Setting, and Participants: </bold>A retrospective cohort study was conducted using Missouri Medicaid administrative claims data (January 1, 2010, to December 31, 2012) linked with prescriber market data. The analysis included 9316 adults (age, 18-64 years) who were starting antipsychotic medication. Secondary analysis included the subset of adults (nā=ā1813) for whom prescriber knowledge, attitudes, and behavior survey data were available. Generalized estimating equations were performed to identify factors associated with failure to receive annual testing during antipsychotic treatment (adjusted odds ratio [OR], <1 favor testing). Data analysis was performed from October 1, 2014, to February 18, 2016.<bold>Exposure: </bold>Oral second-generation antipsychotics.<bold>Main Outcomes and Measures: </bold>A medical claim for glucose or lipid testing occurring within 180 days before and after the antipsychotic prescription claim.<bold>Results: </bold>The 9317 patients (mean [SD] age, 37.6 [12.0] years) initiated antipsychotic medication in a variety of prescriber specialty-settings: 24.3%, community mental health center (CMHC); 27.6%, non-CMHC behavioral health; 24.3%, primary care practitioners; and 23.8%, other/unknown. Annual testing rates were 79.6% for glucose and 41.2% for lipids. Failure to test glucose and lipids was most strongly associated with patient factors and health care utilization. To illustrate by using findings from glucose modeling (reported as adjusted OR [95% CI]), lower failure to receive testing was associated with older age (40-49 vs 18-29 years; 0.64 [0.55-0.74]), diagnosis of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder (0.55 [0.44-0.67]), cardiometabolic comorbidity (dyslipidemia, 0.28 [0.22-0.37]), hypertension (0.59 [0.50-0.69]), and greater outpatient utilization (>6 encounters vs none; 0.33 [0.28-0.39]). Analysis incorporating prescriber practice information found lower failure to receive glucose testing if the patient received care at a CMHC (0.74 [0.64-0.85]) or if the initiating prescriber was a primary care practitioner (0.81 [0.66-1.00]). However, the initiating prescriber specialty-setting was not associated with lipid testing.<bold>Conclusions and Relevance: </bold>Compared with prior reports, progress has been made to improve diabetes screening, but lipid screening remains particularly underutilized. Medicaid performance improvement initiatives should target all prescriber settings and not just behavioral health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- MEDICAID
ANTIPSYCHOTIC agents
CARE of people
PEOPLE with mental illness
CLINICAL trials
MENTAL health services
META-analysis
MANAGEMENT
BLOOD sugar analysis
MEDICAID law
MEDICAL screening -- Law & legislation
DRUG therapy for schizophrenia
STATE health plans
LIPIDS
LONGITUDINAL method
BIPOLAR disorder
ORAL drug administration
QUESTIONNAIRES
RESEARCH funding
RISK assessment
SCHIZOPHRENIA
RETROSPECTIVE studies
LAW
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 2168622X
- Volume :
- 73
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- JAMA Psychiatry
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 116674337
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2016.0538