Evaluation of emergency department visits for mental health complaints during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in over 6 million deaths worldwide as of March 2022. Adverse psychological effects on patients and the general public linked to the pandemic have been well documented.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective analysis of adult emergency department (ED) encounters with diagnoses of anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation using International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes at a tertiary care hospital in New York City from March 15 through July 31, 2020 and compared it with ED encounters during the same time period in the previous 3 years (2017-2019). The relative risk (RR) of these diagnoses was calculated comparing a prepandemic sample to a pandemic sample, accounting for total volume of ED visits.<

SUBMITTER: Sacco DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9051864 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature