Changes in Proportions of Emergency Department Patients with Mental Illness Noted in the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 2012-2015.

CONCLUSIONS: The rate and types of mental health patients coming to the ED are still on the rise. This is coupled with a lack of mental health infrastructure to address the needs and diagnoses that continue to be seen in the ED. States may need increased, targeted funding for mental health outside the increase in coverage via the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to slow the rate of mental health patients seen in the ED. PMID: 32016432 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Southern Medical Journal - Category: General Medicine Tags: South Med J Source Type: research