Emergency rooms are failing America's mentally ill kids, new study indicates
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More than 26% of children who visited emergency rooms for mental health issues came back within six months; only half had follow-up care within 30 days, a new study finds.
A new study published in the March 2023 Pediatrics journal (published online on Feb. 13) analyzed a Medicaid database and found that more than 26% of children who visited the ER for mental health issues made a repeat visit to the hospital within six months. "Ultimately, we are emergency physicians and pediatricians, not psychiatrists." Only about half of children who visit the ER for mental health issues get follow-up care within 30 days. In the U.S., there are only 14 child and adolescent psychiatrists for every 100,000 children. Melissa Rudy is health editor and a member of the lifestyle team at Fox News Digital.
Additionally, only about half of those children then had follow-up mental health care within 30 days, said the study, entitled "Follow-Up after Pediatric Mental Health Emergency Visits."
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