Pediatric Mental Health Emergency Department Visits and Access to Inpatient Care: A Crisis Worsened by the COVID-19 Pandemic

Gretchen J Cutler; Kelly R Bergmann; Stephanie K Doupnik; Jennifer A Hoffmann; Mark I Neuman; Jonathan Rodean; Alicia L Zagel; Bonnie T Zima

doi:10.1016/j.acap.2022.03.015

Pediatric Mental Health Emergency Department Visits and Access to Inpatient Care: A Crisis Worsened by the COVID-19 Pandemic

Acad Pediatr. 2022 Aug;22(6):889-891. doi: 10.1016/j.acap.2022.03.015. Epub 2022 Mar 26.

Authors

Gretchen J Cutler¹, Kelly R Bergmann², Stephanie K Doupnik³, Jennifer A Hoffmann⁴, Mark I Neuman⁵, Jonathan Rodean⁶, Alicia L Zagel⁷, Bonnie T Zima⁸

Affiliations

¹ Children's Minnesota Research Institute, Children's Minnesota (GJ Cutler), Minneapolis, Minn. Electronic address: cutle007@umn.edu.
² Department of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children's Minnesota (KR Bergmann), Minneapolis, Minn.
³ Division of General Pediatrics, PolicyLab, and Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (SK Doupnik), Philadelphia, Pa.
⁴ Division of Emergency Medicine, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago (JA Hoffmann), Chicago, Ill.
⁵ Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School (MI Neuman), Boston, Mass.
⁶ Children's Hospital Association (J Rodean), Lenexa, Kans.
⁷ Fairview Pharmacy Services (AL Zagel), Minneapolis, Minn.
⁸ UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California at Los Angeles (BT Zima), Los Angeles, Calif.

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; adolescent; child; emergency service; hospital; mental disorders; mental health services; psychiatric; self-injurious behavior; suicide.

Publication types

Review
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Child
Emergency Service, Hospital
Humans
Inpatients
Mental Disorders* / epidemiology
Mental Disorders* / therapy
Mental Health
Pandemics
Retrospective Studies

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding