Mental Health Diagnoses Risk Among Children and Young Adults With Cerebral Palsy, Chronic Conditions, or Typical Development.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Mental health (MH) issues in children with cerebral palsy (CP) are poorly understood compared with other pediatric populations.

Objective

To examine MH diagnosis code assignment among children and young adults with CP and compare with typically developing (TD) and chronic condition (CC) pediatric populations.

Design, setting, and participants

This case-control study used International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) codes to create a CP case set and CC and TD control sets using electronic health record data of children and young adults from a large tertiary care children's hospital in the midwestern United States between 2010 and 2022. Case-control matching was performed to control for demographic fa

SUBMITTER: Bhatnagar S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11259902 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature