Pediatric Mental Health Hospitalizations at US Acute Care Hospitals—Reply.

Pediatric Mental Health Hospitalizations at US Acute Care Hospitals - Reply A national survey of recent pediatrics residency graduates found that less than 60% had an on-site mental or behavioral mental health care professional in their primary care continuity clinic[3]; mental health care professionals are likely even less accessible outside of academic training environments. Comment & Response B In Reply b Inspired by our team's experiences working with children and adolescents in inpatient settings, we used the Kids' Inpatient Database to chronicle how hospitalizations for mental health diagnoses changed from 2009 to 2019 among youths aged 3 to 17 years.[1] While the objective of our work was to highlight trends in hospitalizations at the national level, our findings also raised the following questions: why have the numbers of hospitalizations for mental health diagnoses increased and what needs to be done?. [Extracted from the article]