A 7 Year Summary of Emergency Department Visits by Patients With Mental Health Disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Emergency departments (EDs) have been increasingly utilized over time for psychiatric care. While multiple studies have assessed these trends in nationally representative data, few have evaluated these trends in state-level data. This investigation seeks to understand the mental health-related ED burden in North Carolina (NC) by describing trends in ED visits associated with a mental health diagnosis (MHD) over time.

Methods

Using data from NC DETECT, this investigation describes trends in NC ED visits from January 1, 2008 through December 31, 2014 by presence of a MHD code. A visit was classified by the first listed MHD ICD-9-CM code in the surveillance record and MHD codes were grouped into related categories for analysis. Visits were summarized by MHD status an

SUBMITTER: Brathwaite D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8863870 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature