TY - JOUR T1 - Care management increases the use of primary and medical care services by people with severe mental illness in community mental health settings JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs SP - 128 LP - 129 DO - 10.1136/ebn1081 VL - 13 IS - 4 AU - Joan Rosenbaum Asarnow AU - Angela Albright Y1 - 2010/10/01 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/13/4/128.abstract N2 - Commentary on: Druss BG, von Esenwein SA, Compton MT, et al. A randomized trial of medical care management for community mental health settings: the Primary Care Access, Referral, and Evaluation (PCARE) study. Am J Psychiatry 2010;167:151–9.OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science The primary care, access, referral and evaluation (PCARE) study is a pioneering, and to our knowledge, first-of-its-kind study. Building on the extensive literature examining collaborative care models for enhancing mental healthcare among primary care patients,1,–,4 PCARE evaluated a care management intervention for decreasing the medical morbidity and mortality of patients with severe mental illness receiving mental healthcare in a Community Mental Health Center (CMHC). Extant data underscores the high levels of morbidity and mortality among patients with severe mental illness treated in the public sector.5 Overall, this group of patients die about 25 years earlier compared to the general population, and … ER -