Association between child psychiatric emergency room outcomes and dimensions of psychopathology.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the degree to which dimensional psychopathology predicts length of stay in an emergency department (ED) and need for hospital admission among children with psychiatric complaints.

Method

Electronic health records of children age 4-17 years who presented to the ED of a large academic medical center were analyzed using a natural language processing tool to estimate Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) symptom scores. These scores' association with length of stay and probability of admission versus discharge to home were evaluated.

Results

We identified 3061 children and adolescents who presented to the ED and were evaluated by the psychiatry service between November 2008 and March 2015. Median length of stay was 7.8 h (interquartile range 5.2-14.3 h) a

SUBMITTER: McCoy TH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7392621 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul - Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature