Mental Health Emergency Department Visits: An Exploration of Case Definitions in North Carolina

Citation

LeMasters, Katherine; Cox, Mary E.; Fliss, Mike D.; Seibert, Julie; Brown, Carrie; & Proescholdbell, Scott (2022). Mental Health Emergency Department Visits: An Exploration of Case Definitions in North Carolina. American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 57, 103-106.

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Mental health (MH) disorders comprise a high disease burden and have long-lasting impacts. To improve MH, it is important to define public health MH surveillance.
METHODS: We compared MH related definitions using ICD-10-CM codes: The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists' (CSTE) surveillance indicators for all MH, mood or depressive, schizophrenic, and drug/alcohol-induced disorders; and North Carolina's (NC) syndromic surveillance system's definition for anxiety/mood/psychotic disorders, and suicide/self-harm. We compared code definitions and frequent codes in 2019 emergency department (ED) data for those age

URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2022.04.053

Reference Type

Journal Article

Year Published

2022

Journal Title

American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Author(s)

LeMasters, Katherine
Cox, Mary E.
Fliss, Mike D.
Seibert, Julie
Brown, Carrie
Proescholdbell, Scott

Article Type

Regular

Data Set/Study

North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool

Continent/Country

United States of America

State

North Carolina

ORCiD

LeMasters - 0000-0002-1754-1730