5 Topic Commentaries

Half of pediatric mental health visits hit smaller EDs

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  Audrey G. Brewer, MD, MPH

  General Pediatrics / Primary Care

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  Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

  Our findings underscore the need to equip every ED — not only large pediatric centers — with tools and resources to provide evidence-based mental health care,

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  Jennifer A. Hoffmann, MD, MS

  Pediatric Emergency Medicine

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  Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

  Transfer to another hospital for pediatric mental health care often means a prolonged wait in the ED, sometimes lasting days, increasing the burden on children and their families,

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  Alexander T. (Alex) Janke, MD, MHS

  Emergency Medicine

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  University of Michigan

  Insufficient access to mental health care stands out among the factors that contribute to prolonged stays in the nation’s emergency departments,

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  John Vincent Campo, MD

  Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

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  Johns Hopkins Medicine

  Most EDs aren’t well-equipped to handle suicidal thinking, and many of the kids who present don’t always get best-practice standards met when they’re seen,

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  Zheala Qayyum, MMSc

  Emergency Psychiatry; Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

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  Boston Children’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School

  The mental health problems that kids come into the ER with are as life-threatening as any other illness or injury we might see, perhaps more so,

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