Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA
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Emerg Med Australas · Apr 2020
Repeated presentation of children and adolescents to the emergency department following self-harm: A retrospective audit of hospital data.
To examine re-presentation rates for self-harm in patients aged 0-18 years to the ED of a tertiary paediatric hospital in Melbourne, Australia, and associated patient, family and hospital presentation factors. ⋯ In this paediatric ED, almost one in four patients re-presented with self-harm within 12 months. Previous presentations and other factors were associated with risk of re-presenting, although no factor was strongly predictive. Future research might examine the generalisability of these findings across settings and explore strategies for prevention.