The authors sought to assess the availability of outpatient mental health care through
pediatrician and child psychiatrist offices in the United States and to characterize differences …

Objective: Little is known about mental health service use among Canadian children and
youth. Our objective was to examine temporal trends in mental health service use across …

Objectives: To examine the demographics, training, distribution, venues of practice,
remuneration patterns, and professional affiliations of child psychiatrists in Ontario. Method …

Context Previous work has demonstrated marked changes in inpatient mental health service
use by children and adolescents in the 1980s and early 1990s, but more recent …

Objective A national overview of outpatient mental health care in nonhospital settings is
provided, focusing on the distribution of patients among psychiatrists, psychologists, general …

Importance Despite evidence of the increasing use of psychotropic medications, little is
known about the broader changes in the delivery of outpatient mental health treatment to …

Objective To examine access to psychiatric care for adolescents with depression in
outpatient specialty clinics within a state mental health system, using a simulated patient …

OBJECTIVE: To examine trends in mental health service use and cost among privately
insured children. DATA SOURCES: Inpatient and outpatient claims from the MarketScan …

This paper examines pediatricians' perspectives regarding access to children's mental
health care. In response to a question about factors that help or hinder coordination of care …

Background The prevalence of mental disorders is often assessed using survey techniques.
Although providing good estimates of prevalence, these techniques are time-consuming and …