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Psychiatric boarding of SMI population in ERs a growing crisis
Author(s) -
Canady Valerie A.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.32145
Subject(s) - blame , psychiatry , mental illness , population , medicine , mental health , environmental health
Although emergency department visits for people in psychiatric crisis have been steadily increasing in the United States, the lack of affordable, comprehensive psychiatric treatment is largely to blame for psychiatric boarding in emergency departments, according to an Evidence Brief released last week by the Treatment Advocacy Center (TAC). People with serious mental illness are disproportionately affected by psychiatric boarding, the brief stated.