{"id":5963,"date":"2025-05-26T18:25:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T18:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=5963"},"modified":"2025-05-26T18:25:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T18:25:39","slug":"impact-of-mental-health-wait-times-on-mortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=5963","title":{"rendered":"Impact of mental health wait times on mortality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using data on patients with a Veterans Affairs (VA) emergency department visit for a mental health condition, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/articles?id=10.1257\/aer.20240226\">Costantini et al. (2025)<\/a> finds that:<\/p>\n<p>\u2026longer waiting times make it more likely that patients miss their follow-up mental health visit, consequently increasing the probability that they permanently disengage from care. A 1 standard deviation increase in wait time between the emergency department visit and follow-up appointment date (11.7 days) increases two-year mortality by about 1.5 percent. <\/p>\n<p>You can read the full paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/articles?id=10.1257\/aer.20240226\">here<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using data on patients with a Veterans Affairs (VA) emergency department visit for a mental health condition, Costantini et al. (2025) finds that: \u2026longer waiting times make it more likely that patients miss their follow-up mental health visit, consequently increasing the probability that they permanently disengage from care. A 1 standard deviation increase in wait&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}