Study finds ED use high before and after self-inflicted injury among youths

The rates of emergency department (ED) use are high before and after self-inflicted injury among youths, according to a study published online Aug. 15 in JAMA Network Open. Samaa Kemal, M.D., M.P.H., from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, and colleagues conducted a retrospective cohort study of ED encounters by youths aged 5 to 18 years with self-inflected injuries to examine ED use 90 days before and 90 days after self-inflicted injury. A total of 15,593 ED encounters by youths (median age, 15 years) were identified and included in the analysis. The researchers found that 24.2 percent Read More