Modern Healthcare (3/16, Devereaux, Subscription Publication) reports “Hospitals are seeing more emergency department visits for mental health issues after COVID-19 surges, particularly among young adults and racial minority groups,” according to a study that “looked at a sample of U.S. adults between the ages of 18 and 64 with several million ED visits across 3,600 emergency facilities nationwide between Jan. 1, 2019 and Aug. 14, 2021 that were related to a set of 10 mental health disorders.” The study findings were published in JAMA Psychiatry.
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— “Mental health-related ED visits increase after COVID-19 surges, study finds “Mari Devereaux, Modern Healthcare, March 16, 2022