Archive for April 2025

Nationwide, psychiatric “boarding” — when a patient waits in the emergency room after providers decide to admit the person — has increased because of a rise in suicide attempts, among other mental health issues, and a shortage of inpatient psychiatric beds, according to a study of 40 hospitals in the journal Pediatrics. It found the number of cases in which children spent at least two days in pediatric hospitals before being transferred for psychiatric care also increased 66% from 2017 through 2023 to reach 16,962 instances.

That’s a strange question. Of course there should be no misconduct in research. The problem is that it’s difficult to know exactly how much misconduct – data fabrication, plagiarism and so on – there actually is. Instead, we have to infer this from the number of allegations that are made, the number of these that are upheld following investigation and so on. In other words, our evidence is indirect.

“In social work, it’s far less often your caseload alone that will make or break your experience, it’s the culture…”

Marija Barilić, Luisa Brumana