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Emergency Department Visits Among Adults With Mental Health Disorders: United States, 2017–2019

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    Data from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 2017–2019

    • In 2017–2019, the emergency department (ED) visit rate for adults with mental health disorders was 52.9 per 1,000 adults and decreased with age.

    • The percentage of ED visits lasting 4 hours or more was higher among visits by adults with mental health disorders than visits by adults without mental health disorders.

    • The percentage of ED visits that resulted in a hospital admission increased with age among those both with and without mental health disorders.

    • Among all adults, 41.9% of ED visits by adults with mental health disorders had Medicaid as their primary expected payment source compared with 29.5% of visits by adults without mental health disorders.

    Mental health disorders, which include mental illnesses and substance use disorders, are a group of conditions characterized by alterations in thinking, emotions, or behavior (1). In 2019, 61.2 million adults aged 18 and over in the United States had a mental health disorder in the past year (2). This report presents data on emergency department (ED) visits by adults with mental health disorders..

    Suggested citation: Santo L, Peters ZJ, DeFrances CJ. Emergency department visits among adults with mental health disorders: United States, 2017–2019. NCHS Data Brief, no 426. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2021.

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    National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
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    426
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