Mental health symptoms are comparable in patients hospitalized with acute illness and patients hospitalized with injury.
Eve B CarlsonLisa ShiehM Rose BarlowPatrick A PalmieriFelicia YenThomas A MellmanMallory WilliamsMichelle Y WilliamsMayuri ChandranDavid A SpainPublished in: PloS one (2023)
This study found comparable levels of mental health sequelae in patients hospitalized after emergency care for acute illness as in patients hospitalized after emergency care for injury. Findings of significantly higher symptoms and interpersonal violence injuries in Black patients with injury suggest that there may be important and actionable differences in mental health sequelae across ethnic/racial identities and/or mechanisms of injury or illness. Routine screening for mental health risk for all patients admitted after emergency care could foster preventive care and reduce ethnic/racial disparities in mental health responses to acute illness or injury.
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