Detecting Pediatric Emergency Service Use for Suicide and Self-Harm: Multimodal Analysis of 3828 Encounters.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Suicide is the second-leading cause of US childhood mortality after 9 years of age. The accurate measurement of pediatric emergency service use for self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITB) remains challenging, as diagnostic codes undercount children. This measurement gap impedes public health and prevention efforts. Current research has not established which combination of electronic health record data elements achieves both high detection accuracy and consistent performance across youth populations.

Objective

This study aims to (1) compare the detection accuracy of electronic health record-based methods for identifying SITB-related pediatric emergency department (ED) visits: basic structured data (International Classification of Diseases Version 10, Clinical

SUBMITTER: Edgcomb JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12871580 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature