Pediatric mental health emergency department visits from 2017 to 2022: A multicenter study
Jennifer A. Hoffmann,
Camille P. Carter,
Cody S. Olsen
et al.
Abstract:BackgroundThe COVID‐19 pandemic adversely affected children's mental health (MH) and changed patterns of MH emergency department (ED) utilization. Our objective was to assess how pediatric MH ED visits during the COVID‐19 pandemic differed from expected prepandemic trends.MethodsWe retrospectively studied MH ED visits by children 5 to <18 years old at nine U.S. hospitals participating in the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network Registry from 2017 to 2022. We described visit length by time perio… Show more
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