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Gen Hosp Psychiatry · Nov 2011
Current practices for mental health follow-up after psychiatric emergency department/psychiatric emergency service visits: a national survey of academic emergency departments.
- Edwin D Boudreaux, Kathryn Niro, Ashley Sullivan, Christopher D Rosenbaum, Michael Allen, and Carlos A Camargo.
- Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA. edwin.boudreaux@umassmed.edu
- Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2011 Nov 1; 33 (6): 631-3.
ObjectiveThe objective was to describe continuity of care approaches for psychiatric emergencies in the emergency department.MethodsA national survey of all 138 academic emergency departments in the United States was conducted.ResultsMost emergency physicians (81%) had no systematic method for identifying psychiatric emergency patients with high recidivism. In order to promote outpatient care, sites commonly reported using intensive interventions, including scheduling outpatient appointments prior to discharge (72%) and in-house case management (64%).ConclusionWhile systematic identification of repeat psychiatric emergency patients was uncommon, emergency departments reported using a variety of fairly intensive strategies to promote continuity of care with outpatient mental health services.Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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