{"id":2954,"date":"2015-09-23T12:48:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T15:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=2954"},"modified":"2015-09-23T12:48:23","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T15:48:23","slug":"emergency-department-visits-related-to-schizophrenia-among-adults-aged-18-64-united-states-2009-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2015\/09\/23\/2954\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency Department Visits Related to Schizophrenia Among Adults Aged 18\u201364: United States, 2009\u20132011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db215.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db215_fig1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"331\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Schizophrenia is a severe brain disorder with clinical manifestations that may include hallucinations, delusions, and thought and movement disorders.<\/p>\n<p>A new NCHS\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db215.pdf\">report <\/a>describes the rate and characteristics of emergency department (ED) visits related to schizophrenia among adults aged 18\u201364.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Findings from the Report:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>During 2009\u20132011, an estimated 382,000\u00a0ED visits related to schizophrenia occurred each year among adults aged 18\u201364, with an overall ED visit rate of 20.1 per 10,000 adults.<\/li>\n<li>The overall rate for ED visits related to schizophrenia for men (26.5 per 10,000) was approximately double the rate for women (13.8 per 10,000).<\/li>\n<li>Public insurance (Medicaid, Medicare, or dual Medicare and Medicaid) was used more frequently at ED visits related to schizophrenia compared with ED visits not related to schizophrenia.<\/li>\n<li>About one-half of ED visits related to schizophrenia led to either a hospital admission (32.7%) or a transfer to a psychiatric hospital (16.7%); these percentages were higher than for ED visits not related to schizophrenia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schizophrenia is a severe brain disorder with clinical manifestations that may include hallucinations, delusions, and thought and movement disorders. A new NCHS\u00a0report describes the rate and characteristics of emergency department (ED) visits related to schizophrenia among adults aged 18\u201364. Key Findings from the Report: During 2009\u20132011, an estimated 382,000\u00a0ED visits related to schizophrenia occurred each<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61990,63690],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}