Reuters (8/1, Rapaport) reports, “When parents are depressed, kids are 41 percent more likely to visit the emergency” department, “47 percent more likely to be admitted to the hospital and 67 percent more likely to have outpatient clinic visits than when parents aren’t depressed,” researchers concluded after reviewing “one year of electronic health records for more than 25,000 patients registered with a multisite medical practice in London.” The findings were published online July 30 in BMJ Pediatrics Open.
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