Surveying Child and Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatric Units: Demographics, Policies, and Practice.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The increasing demand for acute inpatient psychiatric unit (IPU) treatment for children and adolescents in recent years has put significant pressure on hospital systems to provide efficient and effective care. However, there is a gap in the literature regarding the characteristics of IPU care for children and adolescents in the US, making it difficult for institutions to benchmark their performance against nationwide standards or understand generalizability of existing research.

Objective

To address this gap in the literature by beginning to collect descriptive data on significant variables for youth care from a geographically and institutionally diverse group of on Child and Adolescent IPUs.

Method

A multi-institutional research team conducted a nationwide

SUBMITTER: Waitz CH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12338103 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature