Emergency department visits and boarding for pediatric patients with suicidality before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To quantify the increase in pediatric patients presenting to the emergency department with suicidality before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the subsequent impact on emergency department length of stay and boarding.

Methods

This retrospective cohort study from June 1, 2016, to October 31, 2022, identified patients ages 6 to 21 presenting to the emergency department at a pediatric academic medical center with suicidality using ICD-10 codes. Number of emergency department encounters for suicidality, demographic characteristics of patients with suicidality, and emergency department length of stay were compared before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Unobserved components models were used to describe monthly counts of emergency department encounters for suicida

SUBMITTER: Zipursky AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10619773 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature