NBC News (7/19, Pandey) reported, “Hospitalizations and emergency” department (ED) “visits for suicide attempts and ideation rose nationally among children and teens from 2016 to 2021,” investigators concluded in a study that “focused on a set of more than 73,000” ED “visits and hospitalizations for suicidal ideation or suicide attempts among children and teens enrolled in commercial health insurance plans and in Medicare Advantage.” The findings were published online July 19 in JAMA Network Open.
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— “Teens have increasingly wound up in the hospital for suicidal thoughts and attempts, study shows,”Maia Pandey, NBC News , July 19, 2023