Editorial: Identifying Youth With Mood Disorders at High Short-Term Risk of Hospital Readmission

Children and adolescents with mood disorder diagnoses are at greater risk of psychiatric hospital admission than youth with disruptive disorders or even psychotic disorders diagnoses.1,2 They account for over two thirds of all child and adolescent mental health admissions to general hospitals and after leaving the hospital they have a substantial risk of early hospital readmission.3 Yet despite these risks, surprisingly little attention has been devoted to identifying which child and adolescent inpatients with mood disorders are at particularly high risk of early hospital readmission.
Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research