Introducing an innovative model of acute paediatric mental health and addictions care to paediatric emergency departments: a protocol for a multicentre prospective cohort study

BMJ Open Quality

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Stephen Freedman¹  Jennifer Thull-Freedman¹  Teresa Lightbody³  Kassi Prisnie¹  Bruce Wright³  Angela Coulombe⁴  Linda M Anderson⁶  Antonia S Stang¹  Angelo Mikrogianakis⁷  Lindy VanRiper⁵  Michael Stubbs^1,10  Amanda Newton^1,11 

[1] Department of Pediatrics , University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine;Departments of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine , Alberta Children’s Hospital;Department of Pediatrics , Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta;Children, Youth, and Families, Addiction and Mental Health , Alberta Health Services;Emergency Department , Stollery Children's Hospital;Emergency Department , Alberta Children’s Hospital;Emergency Department , McMaster Children's Hospital;Department of Pediatrics , Faculty of Health Sciences, DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University;Department of Psychiatry , Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta;Department of Psychiatry , Alberta Children’s Hospital;1 Department of Pediatrics , University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine , Calgary , Alberta , Canada 2 Departments of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine , Alberta Children’s Hospital , Calgary , Alberta , Canada 3 Department of Pediatrics , Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta , Edmonton , Alberta , Canada 4 Children, Youth, and Families, Addiction and Mental Health , Alberta Health Services , Edmonton , Alberta , Canada 5 Emergency Department , Stollery Children's Hospital , Edmonton , Alberta , Canada 6 Emergency Department , Alberta Children’s Hospital , Calgary , Alberta , Canada 7 Emergency Department , McMaster Children's Hospital , Hamilton , Ontario , Canada 8 Department of Pediatrics , Faculty of Health Sciences, DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University , Hamilton , Ontario , Canada 9 Department of Psychiatry , Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta , Edmonton , Alberta , Canada 10 Department of Psychiatry , Alberta Children’s Hospital

关键词: clinical decision-making;    emergency department;    health services research;    interrupted time series analysis;    mental health;   

DOI  :  10.1136/bmjoq-2020-001106

学科分类：药学

来源: BMJ Publishing Group

【 摘 要 】

Introduction Children and youth with mental health and addiction crises are a vulnerable patient group that often are brought to the hospital for emergency department care. We propose to evaluate the effect of a novel, acute care bundle that standardises a patient-centred approach to care.Methods and analysis Two paediatric emergency departments in Alberta, Canada are involved in this prospective, pragmatic, 29-month interventional quasi-experimental study. The acute care bundle comprises three components, applied when appropriate: (1) assessing self-harm risk at triage using the Ask Suicide-Screening Questionnaire (ASQ) to standardise the questions administered, enabling risk stratification; (2) use of the HEADS-ED (Home, Education, Activities/peers, Drug/alcohol, Suicidality, Emotions and behaviour, Discharge Resources) to focus mental health evaluations for those who screen high risk on the ASQ; and (3) implementation of a Choice And Partnership Approach to enable shared decision making in care following the emergency department visit. The overarching goal is to deliver the right care at the right place and time for the patients. The study design involves a longitudinal collection of data 12 months before and after the introduction of the bundle and the use of quality improvement strategies such as Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles during a 5-month run-in period to test and implement changes. The primary study end-point is child/youth well-being 1 month after the emergency department visit. Secondary outcomes include family functioning, child/youth well-being at 3 and 6 months, satisfaction with emergency department care, and health system outcomes (hospital admissions, length of emergency department stays, emergency department revisits).Ethics and dissemination The study is registered at www.ClinicalTrials.gov and has received ethics and operational approvals from study sites. The results of the study will be reported in accordance with the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology statement. Results will be shared broadly with key policy and decision makers and disseminated in peer-reviewed academic journals and presentations at conferences.Trial registration number NCT04292379.

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