Mental health visits more common at pediatric EDs during pandemic

Pediatric mental health visits to the ED increased at community hospitals in Chicago during the COVID-19 pandemic, findings from a study in Academic Pediatrics reported.
The research, from authors at the Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, comes amid what the AAP deemed a “national emergency” over pediatric mental health that coincided with the pandemic’s onset.
Co-author Lavanya G. Shankar, MD, a hospital medicine specialist at Lurie Children’s, said in a Healio interview that the genesis for the study

Pediatric mental health visits to the ED increased at community hospitals in Chicago during the COVID-19 pandemic, findings from a study in Academic Pediatrics reported.
The research, from authors at the Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, comes amid what the AAP deemed a “national emergency” over pediatric mental health that coincided with the pandemic’s onset.
Co-author Lavanya G. Shankar, MD, a hospital medicine specialist at Lurie Children’s, said in a Healio interview that the genesis for the study