Factors associated with a six-month return to emergency services among child and adolescent psychiatric patients

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1489-1492

  Goldstein, Amy B ^a   Frosch, Emily ^b   Davarya, Sarah ^b   Leaf, Philip J ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PEDIATRIC WARD; RECIDIVISM; SOCIAL WORK; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 36749088483     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ps.2007.58.11.1489     Document Type: Article

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