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First North American study to look at ED use by adults with intellectual disabilities
Posted On: May 15, 2011 - 1:00am
In the first North American study to examine population rates of emergency department (ED) use for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), researchers from the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health found 55 per cent of adults with IDD and mental illness visited the ED at least once in a 2 year period and 15.6 per cent visited at least 5 times.
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