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Missed presentations, missed opportunities: A cross‐sectional study of mental health presentation undercounting in the emergency department

Catherine Werkmeister, R. Cunningham, Abigail Freeland, James Stanley, Susanna Every-Palmer, S. Kuehl

Emergency Medicine Australasia, 2022

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Abstract

The burden of mental illness is increasing across developed countries. EDs are often used as access points by people experiencing mental health crises, with such rising demand in Australasia. Accurate data is critical to track and address this need, but research suggests that current data collection methods undercount mental health presentations to the EDs. The present study aimed to quantify and characterise ED mental health presentations that were not identified by usual clinical coding processes.

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