Suicidality in psychiatrically hospitalized children and adolescents: Demographics, treatment, and outcome.

Despite the high prevalence of suicidality in psychiatrically hospitalized youth, its risk factors and impact on inpatient psychopharmacologic treatment are unknown. We identified characteristics associated with suicidality in psychiatrically hospitalized youth and determined the association of suicidality with subsequent psychopharmacologic interventions.Medical records from consecutive psychiatric admissions to a large, acute care, urban,...