Integrated medical care in a mental health clinic improved quality of care and outcomes in serious mental disorders.

Setting A Veterans Affairs mental health clinic in West Haven, Connecticut, USA. Patients 120 patients (mean age 45 y, 99% men) who had serious mental disorders and would benefit from primary care. Exclusion criteria included having a current primary care provider, urgent or multiple serious chronic problems, and medical hospital admissions in the past 6 months. Follow up was 100% for service use, quality of preventive care, and costs; random regression was used to account for missing health status data.