OBJECTIVE: To characterize the prevalence of pediatric mental health boarding and identify
associated patient and hospital factors. DATA SOURCES: Medline and PsycINFO. STUDY …

Objectives: Patients who present to the emergency department (ED) and require psychiatric
hospitalization may wait in the ED or be admitted to a medical service because there are no …

Methods| In March 2021, we conducted a web-based survey of pediatric hospitalists who
participate in Pediatric Research in Inpatient Settings (PRIS), a voluntary pediatric hospital …

OBJECTIVE: Although the importance of mental health assessment and treatment in primary
care is increasingly recognized, the research that underlies current practices largely stems …

Introduction Boarding, especially among psychiatric patients, has been characterized as a
significant cause of ED crowding, but no quantitative analysis has described boarding …

Overcrowded US emergency rooms have become a place of last resort for psychiatric
patients. Psychiatric boarding, defined as psychiatric patients' waiting in hallways or other …

This Policy Statement was retired July 2017. More than 20% of children and adolescents
have mental health problems. Health care professionals for children and adolescents must …

OBJECTIVE: To examine factors related to psychiatric hospitalization decision and length of
stay of wards of the Illinois Department of Child and Family Services. METHOD: A …

Objective To describe trends in utilization of pediatric emergency department (PED)
resources by patients with mental health concerns over the past 10 years at a tertiary care …

The pressing need for identification and treatment of behavioral health disorders in primary
care has renewed interest in the concept of co-located models of care. The purpose of this …