Monitoring child mental health related emergency department visits in New York City
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Introduction From 2001-2011, mental health-related hospitalizations and ED visits increased among United States children nationwide [1]. During this period, mental health-related hospitalizations among NYC children increased nearly 23% [2]. To estimate mental health-related ED visits in NYC and assess the use of syndromic surveillance chief complaint data to monitor these visits, we compared trends from a near real-time syndromic system with those from a less timely, coded ED visit database.
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دوره 9 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2017