Psychiatric Readmission of Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

CONCLUSIONS: Interventions to reduce child psychiatric readmissions should place priority on youths with indicators of high clinical severity, particularly with a history of suicidality, psychiatric comorbidity, prior hospitalization, and discharge to residential treatment. Standardization of methods to determine prevalence rates of readmissions and their predictors is needed to mitigate potential biases and inform a national strategy to reduce repeated child psychiatric hospital readmissions. PMID: 31822241 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Psychiatric Services - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Psychiatr Serv Source Type: research