MedPage Today (7/9, DePeau-Wilson ) reports, “Almost half of youths who boarded in the emergency department awaiting inpatient psychiatric care were never admitted to such a facility, according to a cross-sectional study from Massachusetts.” The research found that “of 4,942 episodes of youth boarding in the ED for 3 or more midnights, just 56% resulted in inpatient admission, and certain groups were less likely to get to that point.” The findings were published in JAMA Pediatrics. “ In this cross-sectional study including 4942 episodes of youth boarding for at least 3 midnights, transgender and nonbinary youth were 9.1% less likely to be admitted and boarded 2.2 days longer than cisgender females; these differences were statistically significant. Black youth were 4.3% less likely to be admitted than their White peers, also statistically significant… A total of 1337 youth (27%) were younger than 13 years. Depression was the most common diagnosis (2138 [43%]).”
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