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 dataStayCountHoursPsychotropic Medication Use in United States Pediatric Emergency Department Visits
Nash K, Olfson M, Rothenberg C, Anderson B, Pincus H, Venkatesh A. Psychotropic Medication Use in United States Pediatric Emergency Department Visits. Academic Pediatrics 2022, 23: 971-979. PMID: 36494030, PMCID: PMC10241984, DOI: 10.1016/j.acap.2022.11.016.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPsychotropic medication useNon-Hispanic patientsMedication useED visitsEmergency departmentPsychotropic medicationsMedication administrationBlack non-Hispanic patientsWhite non-Hispanic patientsSurvey-weighted logistic regressionBehavioral health visitsAppropriate medication usePediatric emergency departmentProportion of visitsCross-sectional analysisBehavioral health carePsychotropic polypharmacyHealth visitsMedication typeEquitable careMedicationsLogistic regressionPrivate insuranceAnxiety disordersVisits
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