ArticlePediatrics2023
Follow-up After Pediatric Mental Health Emergency Visits.
Article in Pediatrics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
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- Current and Desired Behavioral Health Resources for Children: A Survey of Illinois Emergency Departments.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2026Article
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- 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
- The Overlooked Transition: Supporting School Reintegration After a Mental Health Emergency Department Visit.Children and youth services review · 2025Article
- Emergency psychiatric care for children and adolescents: factors associated with multiple visits and hospital admissions.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Article
- Children in Mental Health Crisis: Pediatric Primary Care Providers' Role in Bridging Treatment Following Higher Levels of Care.Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings · 2025Article
- Emergency department visits for children identified as at risk of mental and behavioral conditions in the United States: an analysis of the 2019 NHIS data.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Association of Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations and postpartum mental health care utilization.Health services research · 2025Article
- Retrospective evaluation of implementation of caring contacts for youth suicide prevention in an emergency department.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2024Article
- Evidence-based brief interventions targeting acute mental health presentations for children and adolescents: systematic review.BJPsych open · 2024Review
- Management of youth with suicidal ideation: Challenges and best practices for emergency departments.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo examine how outpatient mental health (MH) follow-up after a pediatric MH emergency department (ED) discharge varies by patient characteristics and to evaluate the association between timely follow-up and return encounters.
methodsWe conducted a retrospective study of 28 551 children aged 6 to 17 years with MH ED discharges from January 2018 to June 2019, using the IBM Watson MarketScan Medicaid database. Odds of nonemergent outpatient follow-up, adjusted for sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, were estimated using logistic regression. Cox proportional hazard models were used to evaluate the association between timely follow-up and risk of return MH acute care encounters (ED visits and hospitalizations).
resultsFollowing MH ED discharge, 31.2% and 55.8% of children had an outpatient MH visit within 7 and 30 days, respectively. The return rate was 26.5% within 6 months. Compared with children with no past-year outpatient MH visits, those with ≥14 past-year MH visits had 9.53 odds of accessing follow-up care within 30 days (95% confidence interval [CI], 8.75-10.38). Timely follow-up within 30 days was associated with a 26% decreased risk of return within 5 days of the index ED discharge (hazard ratio, 0.74; 95% CI, 0.63-0.91), followed by an increased risk of return thereafter.
conclusionsConnection to outpatient care within 7 and 30 days of a MH ED discharge remains poor, and children without prior MH outpatient care are at highest risk for poor access to care. Interventions to link to outpatient MH care should prioritize follow-up within 5 days of an MH ED discharge.
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