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Failure of psychiatric referrals from the pediatric emergency department
BMC Emergency Medicine, 09/20/07

Grupp-Phelan, J., et al. - Recognition of mental illness in the pediatric emergency department (PED) followed by brief, problem oriented interventions may improve health-care seeking behavior and quality of life...Conclusion: Children screened in the ED for unrecognized mental health problems are very unlikely to follow-up for a mental health evaluation with or without an enhanced referral. Understanding the role of ED based mental health screening and the timing of an intervention is key in developing ED based mental health interventions