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Link to care broken for many youth discharged from psych hospitals

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Link to care broken for many youth discharged from psych hospitals MedPage Today Fewer than half of youth admitted to a psychiatric hospital received follow-up care within a week of discharge, despite such care being associated with better outcomes, researchers reported. Among 139,694 adolescents on Medicaid who were admitted for psychiatric stays, just over half attended a mental health follow-up visit within a week of being discharged (56.5%), and this attendance was associated with a significantly lower risk of suicide within 180 days (adjusted relative risk 0.44, 95% CI 0.23-0.83, P=0.01), reported Cynthia A. Fontanella, PhD, of the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, and colleagues. READ MORE

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