Mental and behavioral health conditions are common among children and adolescents in
the United States. The purpose of this state-of the-art review article is to describe inequities …

Suicide rates among ethnoracially minoritized youth (ie, youth of color) peak before the age
of 30, and striking disparities in access to mental health services have been identified in this …

Importance Recent studies have demonstrated that people of color are more likely to be
restrained in emergency department (ED) settings compared with other patients, but many of …

Video Abstract Objectives Emergency department (ED) utilization by children with mental
and behavioral health (MBH) conditions is increasing. During these visits, pharmacologic …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Pediatric mental health emergency department (ED)
visits are rising in the United States, with more visits involving medication for acute agitation …

Methods| We performed a cross-sectional study of ED visits from the Yale New Haven health
care system to examine previously identified racial disparities between non-Hispanic Black …

Abstract Background Security emergency responses (SERs) are utilized by hospitals to
ensure the safety of patients and staff but can cause unintended morbidity. The presence of …

Methods| In this cross-sectional study, parallel analyses using exhaustive χ2 automatic
interaction detection with Bonferroni correction were conducted. Data came from 2 …

Nia is a first-grade student with a history of trauma who was brought in by ambulance to the
pediatric emergency department for “out of control behavior” at school. This is the first of …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Restraint use is associated with negative mental health
outcomes, injury risk, and known disparities in use. Improved understanding of restraint use …