ArticleJournal of hospital medicine2023
Pharmacologic restraint use for children experiencing mental health crises in pediatric hospitals.
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- Pediatric Physical Restraint Coding in US Hospitals: A 2019 Kids Inpatient Database Study.Hospital pediatrics · 2024Article
- Disparities in Pharmacologic Restraint for Children Hospitalized in Mental Health Crisis.Pediatrics · 2024Article
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backgroundChildren in mental health crises are increasingly admitted to children's hospitals awaiting inpatient psychiatric placement. During hospitalization, patients may exhibit acute agitation prompting pharmacologic restraint use.
objectiveTo determine hospital-level incidence and variation of pharmacologic restraint use among children admitted for mental health conditions in children's hospitals. DESIGN, SETTING, AND
participantsWe examined data for children (5 to ≤18 years) admitted to children's hospitals with a primary mental health condition from 2018 to 2020 using the Pediatric Health Information System database. Hospital rates of parenteral pharmacologic restraint use per 1000 mental health bed days were determined and compared after adjusting for patient-level and demographic factors. Cluster analysis (k-means) was used to group hospitals based on overall restraint use (rate quartiles) and drug class. Hospital-level factors for pharmacologic restraint use were compared.
resultsOf 29,834 included encounters, 3747 (12.6%) had pharmacologic restraint use. Adjusted hospital rates ranged from 35 to 389 pharmacologic restraint use days per 1000 mental health bed days with a mean of 175 (standard deviation: 72). Cluster analysis revealed three hospitals were high utilizers of all drug classes. No significant differences in pharmacologic restraint use were found in the hospital-level analysis.
conclusionsChildren's hospitals demonstrate wide variation in pharmacologic restraint rates for mental health hospitalizations, with a 10-fold difference in adjusted rates between highest and lowest utilizers, and high overall utilizers order medications across all drug classes.
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