Meeting
Abstract Number: 241
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Over the course of several months, five adolescent patients were admitted to the hospital after intentional self-injurious behaviors involving foreign body ingestion. These patients were previously living in residential treatment centers, and via social media alerted each other of the benefits of being admitted to a children’s hospital including: private rooms/bathrooms, individualized attention, attendance […]