Risk factors for return visits and rehospitalizations to the child emergency psychiatric unit: A retrospective study over 2 years at Saint-Étienne University Hospital - 19/05/19
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Abstract |
Purpose |
This retrospective study aimed to achieve a better understanding of risk factors leading children and adolescents hospitalized in an emergency psychiatric ward to return visits, and to propose preventive devices.
Method |
From January 2, 2010 through February 29, 2012, 180 children and adolescents younger than 17 years were hospitalized in a total of 261 stays in the emergency psychiatric ward of University hospital of Saint-Étienne (France). We assessed clinical and sociodemographic characteristics of these patients and traced any of their return visits to the same unit through December 31, 2012. Risk factors for patients’ repeated visits were calculated using multivariate analysis, and the cumulative incidence of returns using the Kaplan-Meier method for censored data. We used confidence interval of relative risk, considering 0.05 to reflect significance.
Results |
Over the 2 years of the study, 77 (42.8%) of the 180 patients revisited the emergency psychiatric ward; 62 (80.7%) of these required further hospitalizations. Multivariate analysis linked the patients’ psychiatric history (RR=2.5) and pursuit of vocational education (RR=4) with the risk of return. Return visits rose from 27.2% at 6 months to 41.2% at 2 years.
Conclusion |
Knowledge of risk factors would allow implementation of secondary or tertiary preventive devices. Students could undergo early screening of psychiatric pathologies using mobile screening teams which would save money, avoid hospitalizations, and when necessary, facilitate both hospitalization and return visits.
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Keywords : Adolescent, Psychiatry, Emergency unit, Hospitalization, Risk factors, Returns
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