Children who are male, Black more likely to experience pharmacologic restraint in ED

Children with mental or behavioral health conditions are more likely to experience pharmacologic restraint in the ED if they are young, male or Black, according to a study published in Pediatrics.
Co-author Ashley A. Foster, MD, assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, told Healio that many of the study’s researchers work in pediatric EDs and “have witnessed first-hand the increase in emergency department utilization by children with mental and behavioral health conditions.”
“This vulnerable population

Children with mental or behavioral health conditions are more likely to experience pharmacologic restraint in the ED if they are young, male or Black, according to a study published in Pediatrics.
Co-author Ashley A. Foster, MD, assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, told Healio that many of the study’s researchers work in pediatric EDs and “have witnessed first-hand the increase in emergency department utilization by children with mental and behavioral health conditions.”
“This vulnerable population