Who’s Boarding in the Psychiatric Emergency Service?
Introduction: When a psychiatric patient in the emergency department requires inpatient admission, but no bed is available, they may become a “boarder.” The psychiatric emergency service (PES) has been suggested as one means to reduce psychiatric boarding, but the frequency and characteristics of...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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eScholarship Publishing, University of California
2014-09-01
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| Series: | Western Journal of Emergency Medicine |
| Online Access: | http://escholarship.org/uc/item/44d8x30t |