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Does emergency department use and post-visit physician care cluster geographically and temporally for adolescents who self-harm? A population-based 9-year retrospective cohort study from Alberta, Canada

BACKGROUND: Clustering of adolescent self-harming behaviours in the context of health care utilization has not been studied. We identified geographic areas with higher numbers of adolescents who (1) presented to an emergency department (ED) for self-harm, and (2) were without a physician follow-up v...

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Autores principales: Rosychuk, Rhonda J., Johnson, David W., Urichuk, Liana, Dong, Kathryn, Newton, Amanda S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4940757/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27400782
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-016-0941-3