Postpartum psychiatric emergency care visits followed up less than half the time

Fewer than half of emergency care visits for psychiatric reasons in postpartum women were accompanied by follow-up within 30 days, according to a study published in Lancet Psychiatry.
“Given the high risk nature of mental illness in the post-partum period, both for the childbearing parents and their infants, rapid follow-up after post-partum psychiatric emergency department attendance is essential to facilitate treatment,” Lucy C. Barker, MD, of the department of psychiatry at the University of Toronto, and colleagues wrote.
Barker and colleagues sought to examine outpatient mental

Fewer than half of emergency care visits for psychiatric reasons in postpartum women were accompanied by follow-up within 30 days, according to a study published in Lancet Psychiatry.
“Given the high risk nature of mental illness in the post-partum period, both for the childbearing parents and their infants, rapid follow-up after post-partum psychiatric emergency department attendance is essential to facilitate treatment,” Lucy C. Barker, MD, of the department of psychiatry at the University of Toronto, and colleagues wrote.
Barker and colleagues sought to examine outpatient mental