Hospital admission at the time of a postpartum psychiatric emergency department visit: the influence of the social determinants of health

CONCLUSIONS: For the most part, whether a postpartum ED visit resulted in admission from the ED depended primarily on the clinical severity of presentation, not on individual or intersecting social determinants of health. Being of Chinese ethnicity did increase the likelihood of admission independent of clinical severity and other measured factors; the reasons for this warrant further exploration.PMID:33890565 | DOI:10.1017/S2045796021000238

Source: Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences - April 23, 2021 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Lucy C Barker Susan E Bronskill Hilary K Brown Paul Kurdyak Simone N Vigod Source Type: research