Emergency psychiatric assessment, treatment, and healing (EmPATH) unit decreases hospital admission for patients presenting with suicidal ideation in rural America.
Allison K KimJ Priyanka VakkalankaPaul Van HeukelomJodi TateSangil LeePublished in: Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (2021)
The introduction of the EmPATH unit has improved management of patients presenting to the ED with suicidal attempts/ideation by reducing ED boarding and unnecessary admissions and establishing post-ED follow-up care.