Here are some new details on pediatric mental health boarding you need to know – Hindustan Times

A new study offers new details about pediatric mental health boarding in emergency departments across the country, a problem that has steadily increased in the last 10 years and been made worse by a shortage of psychiatric resources.
The Dartmouth-led study was published in the journal Pediatrics.
Boarding refers to the practice of admitting children and adolescents – who are in need of inpatient mental health treatment–to emergency departments or inpatient medical units while they wait for a…

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