Assessing quality indicators related to mental health emergency room utilization

BMC Emergency Medicine

Table 3 Utilization of emergency rooms (ERs) among patients 12 years old and over with mental illnesses (MI), and among high and very high ER users, and length of hospitalizations in 2014–15 and in 2005–06 for any reason

Note. Relative trend in ER use between 2005 and 06 and 2014–15 among patients without MI = −6.47%. Relative trend in hospitalization between 2005 and 06 and 2014–15 among patients without MI = −1.59%. Age: standardized data
^aFour to 11 ER visits per year (of total 341,030 patients who visited ERs)
^bTwelve visits or more ER visits per year (of total 341,030 patients who visited ERs)
^cNumber of individuals hospitalized out of 341,030 patients with MI who visited ERs; number of high users or very high users, of total 55,129 high and 2, 759 very high users respectively in 2014–15
^dMean frequency calculated per individual who made at least one ER visit
^eRelative trends calculated as: last value (in 2014–15) minus initial value (in 2005–06) divided by the initial value (in 2005–06) multiplied by 100 to obtain value in percentage. Age: standardized data
^fData not available for high and very high ER users

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