Table 1.

Preferences for Type of Clinician Who Should Be Conducting Metabolic Monitoring of People with Severe Mental Illness

Statement	Provider Type*
	Psychiatrists				Primary Care Clinicians
	Disagree		Agree		Disagree		Agree
	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
Primary care clinicians should screen not psychiatrists†	30	70	14	30	52	33	102	66
Psychiatrists should screen even if the patient has established primary care‡	10	20	39	80	63	40	93	60

^*Notably, there were minor differences in the number of providers responding to these questions. For example, 47 psychiatrists and 154 primary care clinicians answered the first statement and 49 psychiatrists and 156 primary care clinicians answered the second.

^†Primary care clinicians were more likely than psychiatrists to agree with this statement (P < .001).

^‡Psychiatrists were more likely than primary care clinicians to agree with this statement (P = .011).