ArticleThe journal of behavioral health services & research2018
Potentially Preventable Medical Hospitalizations and Emergency Department Visits by the Behavioral Health Population.
Article in The journal of behavioral health services & research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- The role of mesolevel characteristics of the health care system and socioeconomic factors on health care use - results of a scoping review.International journal for equity in health · 2024Article
- Variation in benefit among patients with serious mental illness who receive integrated psychiatric and primary care.PloS one · 2024Article
- Computer adaptive testing to assess impairing behavioral health problems in emergency department patients with somatic complaints.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2022Article
- Predictors of behavioral health unit readmission within 30 days of discharge: A retrospective study.Heliyon · 2022Article
- Intention to Use Behavioral Health Data From a Health Information Exchange: Mixed Methods Study.JMIR mental health · 2021Article
- Potentially preventable hospitalisations for physical health conditions in community mental health service users: a population-wide linkage study.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2021Article
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Abstract
This study investigated geographic variation in potentially preventable medical outcomes that might be used to monitor access to high-quality medical care in the behavioral health population. Analyzing public and non-public data sources from California on adults admitted between 2009 and 2011 to all non-federal licensed medical inpatient (N = 6,603,146) or emergency department units (N = 21,011,958) revealed that 33.6% of nearly 1 million potentially preventable hospitalizations and 9.8% of 1.5 million potentially preventable emergency department visits were made by people with mental or substance use disorder diagnoses. Across California counties or county groups (N = 36), a higher preventable hospitalization rate in the behavioral health population was associated with higher poverty, higher primary care safety net utilization, and fewer mental health providers. Although further validation is required, rates of potentially preventable encounters, particularly hospitalizations, may be useful measures of access to high-quality care in the behavioral health population.
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