American College of Emergency Physicians
July 20, 2021
Barriers to ED Patient Psychiatric Care
There are significant barriers to care for patients experiencing mental health crises in the ED. Here are resources for information and advocacy of barriers in psychiatric care.
ACEP Resources
- Crowding & Boarding: Resource Page
- Mental Health Advocacy: Resource Page
- Psychiatric Holds: Legislation and Regulation
- Federal Government Declares Emergency Physicians Incapable of Performing Medical Screening Exam for Psychiatric Patients in AnMed Lawsuit
- The Dangerous Practice of Boarding Admitted Patients in the ER and Proposed Solutions
- Decreased Public Mental Health Spending Raises Concerns over Psychiatric Patient Boarding
- Psychiatric Inpatients at Higher Risk of Death after Discharge
- Annals: Analysis of Emergency Department Length of Stay for Mental Health Patients at Ten Massachusetts Emergency Departments
- Annals: Emergency Medicine and the Indian Health Service: Overburdened and Understaffed
- Psychiatric "Boarding" in Emergency Departments Ruled Unconstitutional in Washington State
