UCSF

Objective: To review screening for metabolic syndrome in people with severe mental illness (SMI). Methods: Review of the literature. Results: Despite evidence-based metabolic screening guidelines, rates of metabolic screening remain low among people with SMI. Barriers to screening exist at the individual, organizational, and systems levels. Interventions to address these barriers range from point-of-care tools to systems-level reorganization towards population-based care. Conclusion: Greater systems-level interventions, particularly those that improve collaboration between mental health and primary care, are needed to improve metabolic monitoring and identify cardiovascular disease risk among people with SMI.