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Depression in Emergency Department Patients and Association With Health Care Utilization.

David G BeiserCharlotte E WardMilkie VuNeda LaiteerapongRobert D Gibbons
Published in: Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (2019)
Rates of depression were high among a convenience sample of English-speaking adult ED patients presenting with nonpsychiatric complaints and independently associated with increased risk of subsequent ED utilization and hospitalization. Standardized assessment tools that provide rapid, accurate, and precise classification of MDD severity have the potential to play an important role in identifying ED patients in need of urgent psychiatric resource referral.
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