title: Clinical outcomes of depot and well being clinic. Results of physical health care checks.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To establish the level of physical care of people suffering from severe mental illness attending a psychiatric depot clinic. 37 Records of patients who were on long acting injectable antipsychotics, were reviewed to establish their physical care arrangement against the POMT-UK standards,and also to establish the type of antipsychotics, whether they suffer from metabolic syndrome, or whether other physical illness has been recorded.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Records lacked any reference to baseline arrangements of physical monitoring. 22% suffered from diabetes and 75% of them were identified by The Depot and Well Being clinic (DWBC), 73% had abnormal lipid profile 59% were identified by (DWBC). 22% suffer from hypertension, all of them were identified by (DWBC).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Physical care is an important aspect of care of people with severe mental illness total care. This study has demonstrated that this area is still not looked after adequately. Improvement in this area will improve the global outcome for these patients.
authors.affiliation: Mental Health Unit, Basildon Hospital, Basildon, Essex, UK.
authors.forename: Helen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wildi
authors.forename: Hellme
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Najim
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000592:standards*; D015897:Comorbidity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000453:epidemiology; D008659:Metabolic Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000008:administration & dosage; D006113:United Kingdom; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D011619:Psychotropic Drugs