(Reuters Health) - The number of young people visiting U.S. emergency rooms with psychiatric problems is rising, driven largely by a surge in ...
- The number of young people visiting U.S. emergency rooms with psychiatric problems is rising, driven largely by a surge in teens and minority youth seeking urgent help for mental illnesses, a new study suggests.
"Using the ED as psychiatric crisis center needs to change," Kalb said by email."We need to find new ways to get to people in times of need and where they are at, rather than rely on the ED."One in ten children, teens and young adults in the U.S. have serious psychiatric disorders, but many of them never receive treatment, researchers note in Pediatrics.
The probability of psychiatric ED visits for young children didn't change during the study period, even as it increased for teens and young adults.
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