Associations of Patient Race and Ethnicity With Emergency Department Disposition for Mental Health Visits in the United States.

ABSTRACT: Objective: To describe associations between patient race and ethnicity with emergency department disposition for mental health visits in the United States.Methods: We identified 674,821 visits for mental health in the 2019 National Emergency Department Sample and classified them by ICD-10 diagnostic group: schizophrenia-spectrum, bipolar, major depressive, anxiety, or other disorders. Racial and ethnic categories were White, Black, Hispanic, or other. Logistic regression models, adjusted for age, sex, insurance status, and medical comorbidities, were used to describe differences in odds of inpatient admission by race/ethnicity and diagnosis.Results: After covariate adjustment, we did not find overall differences in the likelihood of admissio

SUBMITTER: Gao YN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11317922 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature