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Telepsychiatry Quiz: Patients With Psychiatric Symptoms Discharge Rate

 

True or False:  Patients with psychiatric symptoms who received care in the emergency department (ED) were discharged home, rather than transferred to a psychiatric facility, more often when the North Carolina Statewide Telepsychiatry Program was available.

 

 

 

Through a study published online in the journal Psychiatric Services, researchers looked at ED discharge records for 86,931 patients with psychiatric symptoms in the North Carolina Statewide Telepsychiatry Program.

True or False:  Patients with psychiatric symptoms who received care in the emergency department (ED) were discharged home, rather than transferred to a psychiatric facility, more often when the North Carolina Statewide Telepsychiatry Program was available.