2022
Pediatric mental health visits with prolonged length of stay in community emergency departments during COVID‐19
Janke A, Nash K, Goyal P, Auerbach M, Venkatesh A. Pediatric mental health visits with prolonged length of stay in community emergency departments during COVID‐19. Journal Of The American College Of Emergency Physicians Open 2022, 3: e12869. PMID: 36570374, PMCID: PMC9767857, DOI: 10.1002/emp2.12869.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPediatric mental health visitsLength of stayMental health visitsED LOSCommon diagnostic categoriesEmergency departmentHealth visitsIncident rate ratiosCOVID-19Diagnostic categoriesCommunity emergency departmentsVisit countsMental health syndromesMental health systemAvailable complete dataDepressive disorderData registrySecondary analysisHealth systemVisitsRate ratioComplete dataStayCountHours
2021
Prolonged Emergency Department Length of Stay for US Pediatric Mental Health Visits (2005–2015)
Nash KA, Zima BT, Rothenberg C, Hoffmann J, Moreno C, Rosenthal MS, Venkatesh A. Prolonged Emergency Department Length of Stay for US Pediatric Mental Health Visits (2005–2015). Pediatrics 2021, 147: e2020030692. PMID: 33820850, PMCID: PMC8086002, DOI: 10.1542/peds.2020-030692.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMental health ED visitsLength of stayPediatric mental health careMental health visitsED visitsMental health careHealth visitsEmergency departmentNational Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care SurveyNon-mental health visitsPediatric mental health visitsProlonged Emergency Department LengthAmbulatory Medical Care SurveyED LOSSurvey-weighted logistic regressionPediatric mental healthEmergency department lengthPatient-level characteristicsHealth careYears of ageMental health conditionsThreefold oddsClinical characteristicsCare SurveyPayer type
2018
Opening of Psychiatric Observation Unit Eases Boarding Crisis
Parwani V, Tinloy B, Ulrich A, D'Onofrio G, Goldenberg M, Rothenberg C, Patel A, Venkatesh A. Opening of Psychiatric Observation Unit Eases Boarding Crisis. Academic Emergency Medicine 2018, 25: 456-460. PMID: 29266537, DOI: 10.1111/acem.13369.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsED LOSLength of stayMedian ED LOSTotal LOSPsychiatric admission ratesCrisis intervention unitSecondary outcomesPrimary outcomeObservation unitAdmission ratesPrimary analysisTertiary care academic medical centerPsychiatric chief complaintsBehavioral health staffInpatient psychiatric bedsAcute psychiatric careAcademic medical centerHours of careEmergency department boardingAdult EDAdult patientsPreintervention periodChief complaintPediatric hospitalInpatient admissions