OBJECTIVES Describe the epidemiology of pediatric psychiatric-related visits to emergency departments participating in the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network. METHODS Retrospective analysis of emergency department presentations for psychiatric-related visits (International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, codes 290.0-314.90) for years 2003 to 2005 at 24 participating...

AIMS The aim of the present study was to investigate suicidal risk in psychiatric referrals admitted to a University Hospital Emergency Department (ED) who had a substance use disorder. METHODS The participants were 135 psychiatric referrals (84 men and 51 women) admitted to the ED of the Sant' Andrea Hospital of Rome (Italy) between January 2006 and February 2007. The data were collected for...

BACKGROUND The Republic of India, the world's most populous democracy, has struggled with establishing Emergency Medical Care. However, with the recent recognition of Emergency Medicine as a formal specialty in medical training, there has been renewed vigor in the developments in the field. METHOD AND RESULTS We outline here the building blocks of the health care system in India, and the cont...

Background: More psychiatric visits, especially non-emergency ones, to emergency departments (EDs) of general hospitals have been observed in recent years. The aim of this study was to determine the characteristics of psychiatric visits to the ED of Rasoul-e-Akram Hospital, Tehran, Iran. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, during a two-month period, all psychiatric presentations and consult...