Patel PV, et al. - Researchers examined how depression influences pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)-related hospitalizations. From the 2012 Kids Inpatient Database, the largest nationally representative publicly available all-payer pediatric inpatient cross-sectional database in the United States, they assessed 8,222 hospitalizations for patients less than 21 years with a primary diagnosis Crohn disease or ulcerative colitis. The analysis revealed an association of depression with prolonged length of stay in pediatric patients with IBD. This association was evident even when gastrointestinal disease severity was controlled.