Repeated presentation of children and adolescents to the emergency department following self-harm: A retrospective audit of hospital data.
Peter SummersRachel O'LoughlinSinead O'DonnellRohan BorschmannJohn CarlinHarriet HiscockPublished in: Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA (2020)
In this paediatric ED, almost one in four patients re-presented with self-harm within 12 months. Previous presentations and other factors were associated with risk of re-presenting, although no factor was strongly predictive. Future research might examine the generalisability of these findings across settings and explore strategies for prevention.