Second year of COVID pandemic brought spike in child mentalhealth visits to ED harvardmed JAMAPsych
How did utilization of acute mental health care change during the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic for youth aged 5 to 17 years?In this cross-sectional study comparing pandemic year 2 with a baseline year, the fraction of youth with mental health emergency department visits increased 7%, the percentage of emergency department visits that resulted in inpatient psychiatric admission increased 8%, and the mean length of inpatient psychiatric stay increased 4%.
1 million commercial insurance enrollees aged 5 to 17 years, 17 614 and 16 815 youth had at least 1 mental health ED visit in the baseline year and pandemic year 2 , respectively.
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