Use of urgent, emergency and acute care by mental health service users: A record-level cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

People with serious mental illness experience worse physical health and greater mortality than the general population. Crude rates of A&E attendance and acute hospital admission are higher in people with serious mental illness than other hospital users. We aimed to further these findings by undertaking a standardised comparison of urgent and emergency care pathway use among users of mental health services and the general population.

Methods

Retrospective cohort analysis using routine data from 2013-2016 from the CUREd dataset for urgent and emergency care contacts (NHS 111, ambulance, A&E and acute admissions) and linked mental health trust data for Sheffield, England. We compared annual age- and sex-standardised usage rates for each urgent and emergency care serv

SUBMITTER: Lewis J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9925080 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature