Follow-Up Mental Health Visits Lower Among Those With Substance Addiction
Follow-up mental health visits, within 14 days after emergency department contact, are lower among those with substance addiction than those with other mental health diagnoses. Approximately 40.2% of 57,797 individuals who visited the emergency room for a mental health issue had a follow-up mental health visit within 14 days: just 25.2% were those with initial substance use visits.
Of those with follow-up visits that were not related to substance use, about 56.1% initially presented with bipolar disorder, 51.1% initially presented with major …
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