Insurance and inpatient admission of emergency department patients with depression in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate the contribution of insurance on rates of inpatient admission for emergency department visits with depression diagnoses.

Methods

We identified 3,681,581 visits for depression in the National Emergency Department Sample (2007-2018). We classified them by concurrent injury, suicidal ideation, or neither. Payer categories were defined, non-exclusively, as Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance, and no insurance. Logistic regression models, adjusted for age, year, and comorbidities, were used to describe differences in rates of inpatient admission by payer type, stratified by visit features.

Results

Rates of inpatient admission for visits with neither injury nor suicidal ideation (31.9%; 95%CI, 30.8-33.0) were lower than for visits with injury (37.9%;

SUBMITTER: Gao YN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9474607 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature