Teens’ Suicide-Related and Total Hospital Visits by Reported Primary Diagnosis
Any Suicide-Related Code | Suicide-Related Code Is Suicidal Ideation | Suicidal Ideation Is Secondary Diagnosis | All Visits | |||||||||
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2009–2010 | 2014–2015 | 2018–2019 | 2009–2010 | 2014–2015 | 2018–2019 | 2009–2010 | 2014–2015 | 2018–2019 | 2009–2010 | 2014–2015 | 2018–2019 | |
Panel A: Reported Primary Diagnosis | ||||||||||||
All visits | 36.4 | 50.3 | 75.6 | 23.2 | 37.0 | 61.9 | 20.6 | 29.9 | 48.4 | 3,068.5 | 2903.8 | 2632.9 |
Mood disorder is primary | 17.0 | 24.5 | 35.4 | 13.0 | 20.4 | 31.9 | 13.0 | 20.4 | 31.9 | 76.9 | 98.9 | 99.0 |
Other mental health is primary | 7.1 | 7.4 | 14.4 | 5.3 | 5.8 | 12.5 | 5.3 | 5.8 | 12.5 | 139.7 | 140.4 | 151.7 |
Suicidal ideation is primary | 2.6 | 7.1 | 13.5 | 2.6 | 7.1 | 13.5 | 2.6 | 7.1 | 13.5 | |||
Non-mental health is primary | 9.6 | 11.3 | 12.2 | 2.3 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 2.3 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 2,849.3 | 2,657.4 | 2,368.7 |
Panel B: Corrected Primary Diagnosisa | ||||||||||||
All visits | 36.4 | 50.3 | 75.6 | 23.2 | 37.0 | 61.9 | 22.3 | 35.1 | 57.8 | 3,068.5 | 2,903.8 | 2,632.9 |
Mood disorder is primary | 18.0 | 27.5 | 40.5 | 14.0 | 23.4 | 37.0 | 14.0 | 23.4 | 37.0 | 77.9 | 101.9 | 104.0 |
Other mental health is primary | 7.5 | 8.5 | 16.7 | 5.7 | 6.9 | 14.8 | 5.7 | 6.9 | 14.8 | 140.1 | 141.5 | 154.0 |
Suicidal ideation is primarya | 0.9 | 2.0 | 4.1 | 0.9 | 2.0 | 4.1 | 0.9 | 2.0 | 4.1 | |||
Non-mental health is primary | 9.9 | 12.2 | 14.2 | 2.6 | 4.7 | 6.0 | 2.6 | 4.7 | 6.0 | 2,849.6 | 2,658.4 | 2,370.8 |
Notes: The table reports the rates per 10,000 teens.
↵a Suicidal ideation is a symptom and is not supposed to be coded as primary if there is another confirmed diagnosis.
In Panel B, we reassign visits with a primary diagnosis of suicidal ideation and a secondary diagnosis code to make the non-SI code primary. For example, if SI is primary, but the secondary diagnosis is a mood disorder, then we count the visit in the “Mood disorder is primary” row in Panel B.