Emergency Department Patients with Psychiatric Complaints Return at Higher Rates than Controls

Emergency Department Patients with Psychiatric Complaints Return at Higher Rates than Controls

Study objective: At our 35,000 visit/year emergency department (ED), we studied whether patients presenting to the ED with psychiatric complaints were admitted to the hospital at a higher rate than non-psychiatric patients, and whether these patients had a higher rate of reevaluation in the ED withi...

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Main Authors: Madsen, Troy E, Bennett, Anne, Groke, Steven, Zink, Anne, McCowan, Christy, Hernandez, Alex
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2009-11-01
Series:Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
Subjects:
Psychiatric
Emergency Department
Return Visits
Overcrowding
Online Access:http://escholarship.org/uc/item/5d8683v6

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http://escholarship.org/uc/item/5d8683v6

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