ArticleJournal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry = Journal de l'Academie canadienne de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent2019
Trends and Predictors of Repeat Mental Health Visits to a Pediatric Emergency Department in Hamilton, Ontario.
Article in Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry = Journal de l'Academie canadienne de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Scoping review of precision child and youth mental health research: dwelling in possibility.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Predicting child and adolescent mental health emergency department revisits: a machine-learning approach compared to a clinician-derived baseline.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2025Article
- Factors associated with repeat contact with an out-of-hours mental health crisis service: an observational study.BMJ public health · 2025Article
- Parents' Experiences of Accessing Mental Health Services for Their Adolescents With Mental Health Challenges: A Scoping Review.Journal of clinical nursing · 2024Article
- Gender-specific pathways in mental health crisis in adolescents, from consultation to (in)voluntary admission: a retrospective study.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Screening for Media Use in the Emergency Department Among Young Australians: Cross-sectional Study.JMIR formative research · 2023Article
- Interventions to Reduce Repeat Presentations to Hospital Emergency Departments for Mental Health Concerns: A Scoping Review of the Literature.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Trends of repeated emergency department visits among adolescents and young adults for substance use: A repeated cross-sectional study.PloS one · 2023Article
- Mental and psychosocial health among youth after their first psychiatric hospitalization: a feasibility study.BMC research notes · 2022Article
- The CAMP study: feasibility and clinical correlates of standardized assessments of substance use in a youth psychiatric inpatient sample.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2021Article
- Improving Quality and Efficiency in Pediatric Emergency Department Behavioral Health Care.Pediatric quality & safetyArticle
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Abstract
objectiveFrom 2007-2017, pediatric emergency department (ED) visits for mental health concerns increased by 66% in Canada, with repeat visits accounting for a significant proportion of all visits. Our objective was to examine patient and visit characteristics associated with repeat visits to a tertiary care pediatric ED for mental health concerns.
methodData were obtained from the administrative records of McMaster Children's Hospital ED for mental health-related visits from February 2013-December 2017. Data on 9,018 ED visits made by 4,976 unique patients were included in this study. Logistic regression analysis was used to examine characteristics associated with repeat visit within six months of index presentation.
results22% (n=1,088) of individuals returned to the ED for a mental health concern within six months following their index visit. A repeat visit within six months was associated with female sex (OR=1.19,
conclusionsWe found that approximately one in five patients presenting to the ED for a mental health concern have a repeat visit within six months, consistent with previous studies. This study provides support for previously identified risk factors for repeat visits and offers information on interactions between patient sex and diagnosis.
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