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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Pediatr. 2021 Oct 22;241:29–35.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.10.031

Table 2.

Patients by visit type, encounter department, screening outcome categories, depression and suicide risk symptomatology

(n,%/mean,sd) Total Number
of Patients
Screened
(N=95,613)
Total
Number of
Active
Screening
Months
(to 8/31/2020)
Presented with
Primary
Medical
Concern
n= 91,436
Presented with
Primary
Psychiatric
Concern
n= 4,177
P
value
Encounter Department
Specialty Clinic 38,668 53 38,160 (98.7%) 508 (1.3%) <.001
ED 31,610 39 28,153 (89.1%) 3,457 (10.9%)
Primary Care 19,645 16 19,590 (99.7%) 55 (0.3%)
Urgent Care 3,015 9 3,002 (99.6%) 13 (0.4%)
Inpatient Unit 2,675 39 2,531 (94.6%) 144 (5.4%)
Screening Outcome Category
Negative Depression 89,405 87,640 (98.0%) 1,765 (2.0%) <.001
Positive Depression 2,266 1,986 (87.6%) 280 (12.4%)
Elevated Suicide Risk 3,942 1,810 (45.9%) 2,132 (54.1%)
PHQ-9 Sum Score 13.0 (6.4) 11.4 (6.0) 16.8 (5.8) <.001
C-SSRS Sum Score 4.1 (1.5) 3.9 (1.7) 4.2 (1.5) <.001

There were significant differences in encounter department (p= <.001), screening category (p= <.001), PHQ-9 sum score (p= <.001), and C-SSRS sum score (p= <.001).