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Mike Mitka

JAMA. 2000;284:31-32.

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Annie G. Steinberg, MD, was frustrated. She wanted to hospitalize her patient, a boy with autism, following a series of violent episodes. The managed care company paying for the child's health care denied the admission.

"The physician who denied the hospitalization for my patient said there was no evidence to support hospitalization," said Steinberg, who is an assistant professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. "It's easy to issue a denial because there is no evidence-based data."

Steinberg's frustration about the lack of knowledge surrounding the best ways to treat children's mental health and the influence managed care has on treatment decisions inspired her and her colleagues to form the Children's Mental Health Alliance Project. That project held a conference in 1998 that generated a monograph (Steinberg AG, Gadomski A, Wilson MD. Children's Mental Health: The Changing Interface Between Primary and Specialty . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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