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approximately 1 6 youth us mental health condition suicide leading cause death among population recent national statistics describing acute care hospitalizations mental health conditions lacking describe national trends pediatric mental health hospitalizations 2009 2019 compare utilization among mental health nonmental health hospitalizations characterize variation utilization across hospitals retrospective analysis 2009 2012 2016 2019 kids inpatient database nationally representative database us acute care hospital discharges analysis included 4 767 840 weighted hospitalizations among children 3 17 years age hospitalizations primary mental health diagnoses identified using child adolescent mental health disorders classification system classified mental health diagnoses 30 mutually exclusive disorder types measures included number proportion hospitalizations primary mental health diagnosis attempted suicide suicidal ideation selfinjury number proportion hospital days interfacility transfers attributable mental health hospitalizations mean lengths stay days transfer rates among mental health nonmental health hospitalizations variation measures across hospitals 201 932 pediatric mental health hospitalizations 2019 123 342 611 95 ci 603619 females 100 038 495 95 ci 483507 adolescents aged 15 17 years 103 456 513 95 ci 486539 covered medicaid 2009 2019 number pediatric mental health hospitalizations increased 258 hospitalizations accounted significantly higher proportion pediatric hospitalizations 115 95 ci 102128 vs 198 95 ci 177219 hospital days 222 95 ci 191253 vs 287 95 ci 244330 interfacility transfers 369 95 ci 332405 vs 493 95 ci 459527 percentage mental health hospitalizations attempted suicide suicidal ideation selfinjury diagnoses increased significantly 307 95 ci 286328 2009 642 95 ci 623662 2019 length stay interfacility transfer rates varied significantly across hospitals across years mental health hospitalizations significantly longer mean lengths stay higher transfer rates compared nonmental health hospitalizations 2009 2019 number proportion pediatric acute care hospitalizations due mental health diagnoses increased significantly majority mental health hospitalizations 2019 included diagnosis attempted suicide suicidal ideation selfinjury underscoring increasing importance concern