MedPage Today (8/11, Hlavinka) reports researchers found “fewer than half of youth admitted to a psychiatric hospital received follow-up care within a week of discharge, despite such care being associated with better outcomes.” The findings were published in JAMA Network Open.
Psychiatric News (8/11) reports the researchers also found that those youth who had a follow-up visit within a week “appear to be at lower risk of suicide in the six months following hospitalization compared with those who do not receive such timely care.”
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