Using data on patients with patients with an emergency department a vetters affairs (VA) For a mental health status, Costantini et al. (2025) finds that:
… long -waiting time is more likely that patients recall their follow -up mental health travel, as a result they increase the possibility that they permanently separate from care. In the waiting time between the Emergency Department’s travel and follow -up appointment date (11.7 days), a standard deviation increase increases by about 1.5 percent in two years mortality rate.
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