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Pediatric Mental Health ED Visits Spike During Recent Years

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MULTIBRIEFS EXCLUSIVE Pediatric Mental Health ED Visits Spike During Recent Years By Chelsea Adams While the number of overall pediatric emergency departments visits has remained stable over the past decade, the number of children who have presented with mental health disorders has increased by 60% and cases of self-harm have skyrocketed by 329%. "We're seeing more and more children presenting with mental health disorders," said Dr. Rachel Stanley, chief of emergency medicine at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Stanley authored a study published in the journal Pediatrics that sheds light on emergency department utilization for mental health symptoms among patients between the ages of 5 and 17. READ MORE

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