{"title":"Study: More inpatient beds needed to tackle youth MH crisis","authors":"Valerie A. Canady","doi":"10.1002/mhw.34252","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>Given a pediatric mental health crisis that continues to worsen, children increasingly have prolonged emergency department (ED) visits while awaiting mental health care; however, those long waits have been partially attributed to inadequate availability of pediatric inpatient psychiatric beds, according to a study published last month in <i>JAMA Pediatrics</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":100916,"journal":{"name":"Mental Health Weekly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Mental Health Weekly","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mhw.34252","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Given a pediatric mental health crisis that continues to worsen, children increasingly have prolonged emergency department (ED) visits while awaiting mental health care; however, those long waits have been partially attributed to inadequate availability of pediatric inpatient psychiatric beds, according to a study published last month in JAMA Pediatrics.