{"id":6322,"date":"2022-02-04T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=6322"},"modified":"2022-02-04T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T16:00:00","slug":"quickstats-rates-of-emergency-department-visits-related-to-mental-health-disorders-among-adults-aged-%e2%89%a518-years-by-disorder-category-national-hospital-ambulatory-medical-care-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2022\/02\/04\/6322\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Rates of Emergency Department Visits Related to Mental Health Disorders Among Adults Aged \u226518 Years, by Disorder Category\u00a0\u2014 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, United States, 2017\u20132019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/figures\/mm7105a6-F.gif?_=04339\" alt=\"\" width=\"451\" height=\"306\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>During 2017\u20132019, 52.9 ED visits per 1,000 persons were related to a diagnosed mental health disorder (MHD) in the United States per year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Approximately one half of mental health\u2013related visits had a diagnosis of a psychoactive substance use disorder at a rate of 27.1 visits per 1,000 persons per year, followed by an anxiety, stress-related, or other nonpsychotic mental disorder (14.4), mood (affective) disorder (12.6), other MHD (5.3), and schizophrenia, schizotypal, delusional, or other nonmood psychotic disorder (4.0).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>&nbsp;National Center for Health Statistics. National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 2017\u20132019.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/ahcd\/ahcd_questionnaires.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/ahcd\/ahcd_questionnaires.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During 2017\u20132019, 52.9 ED visits per 1,000 persons were related to a diagnosed mental health disorder (MHD) in the United States per year. Approximately one half of mental health\u2013related visits had a diagnosis of a psychoactive substance use disorder at a rate of 27.1 visits per 1,000 persons per year, followed by an anxiety, stress-related,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61990,62294,14310,63690,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6322"}],"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=6322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}