Follow-up After Pediatric Mental Health Emergency Visits.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine how outpatient mental health (MH) follow-up after a pediatric MH emergency department (ED) discharge varies by patient characteristics and to evaluate the association between timely follow-up and return encounters.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective study of 28 551 children aged 6 to 17 years with MH ED discharges from January 2018 to June 2019, using the IBM Watson MarketScan Medicaid database. Odds of nonemergent outpatient follow-up, adjusted for sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, were estimated using logistic regression. Cox proportional hazard models were used to evaluate the association between timely follow-up and risk of return MH acute care encounters (ED visits and hospitalizations).

Results

Following MH ED discharge, 31.2

SUBMITTER: Hoffmann JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10187982 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature