Healio (6/29, Weldon) reports, “Pediatric mental health visits to the” emergency department (ED) “increased at community hospitals in Chicago during the COVID-19 pandemic,” researchers concluded in a study that “identified 8,127 pediatric mental health visits from a pool of ED visits to 12 Chicago area hospitals…beginning in March 2018 to establish a baseline trajectory.” The findings were published online June 3 ahead of print in the journal Academic Pediatrics.
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— “Mental health visits more common at pediatric EDs during pandemic “Rose Weldon, Healio, June 30, 2022