Utilizing a Behavioral Health Bundle to Improve Patient and Clinician Safety for Hospitalized Children.

ABSTRACT: Due to limited psychiatric hospital availability, increasing numbers of pediatric patients with behavioral health (BH) needs are hospitalized in medical units in the US Patients and staff are at increased risk for safety events like self-harm or aggression. Our study aimed to decrease safety events by 25% over a year among hospitalized children with BH diagnoses by implementing an intervention bundle.

Methods

A multidisciplinary team developed and implemented a BH intervention bundle that included a BH equipment cart, an electronic medical record tool for BH patient identification/stratification, a de-escalation team, daily operational BH phone call, and staff training with a safety checklist. The primary outcome measure was the number of reported safety events in BH patients. Proce

SUBMITTER: Nicome R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7952108 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature