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ecj-8059	Fraticelli, Carlo; Casolaro, Ilaria; Nigro, Massimiliano	Critical issues and opportunities of emergency psychiatry in Italian emergency departments	2019	5	.pdf	application/pdf	5551	217	40	We must change the widespread idea that most patients with urgent mental health presentations require hospitalisation, by implementing effective ways to deliver timely psychiatric care in the ED capable of reducing the prolonged stay of these patients in an unsuited environment (psychiatric boarding phenomenon), in the awareness that it is completely appropriate for emergency psychiatric patients to come to medical EDs because their emergencies must be cate- gorized as equivalent to acute medical or surgical conditions.14 Instead, there is the belief that most patients with potentially lethal psychiatric emergencies such as suicidal risk and psychosis always require hospitalization. In order to cope with the increase in psychiatric urgencies, some countries have organized psychiatric emergency services (e.g. the American Psychiatric Emergency Service) capable of han- dling urgencies that do not require hospitalization and also social problems, drug addiction and/or antisocial behaviour, through col- laboration with other professionals.	cache/ecj-8059.pdf	txt/ecj-8059.txt