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Remote consultations in the era of COVID-19 pandemic: Preliminary experience in a regional Australian public acute mental health care setting

In the wake of the recent pandemic of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), with confirmed cases having crossed 750,000, health systems across the world are getting overwhelmed; making it strenuous to maintain essential health services. Several changes were implemented in our acute mental health car...

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Autores principales: Kavoor, Anjana Rao, Chakravarthy, Kripa, John, Thomas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier B.V. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7195079/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32294583
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2020.102074
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Sumario:In the wake of the recent pandemic of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), with confirmed cases having crossed 750,000, health systems across the world are getting overwhelmed; making it strenuous to maintain essential health services. Several changes were implemented in our acute mental health care service using a collaborative approach to maintain a balance between preventive measures to ‘flatten the curve’ and to provide care to those who were in need. Mode of service delivery was changed predominantly to tele-medicine, amongst others. It was found to be a workable model, albeit further follow up will be required to better understand its viability and feasibility to withstand the COVID-19 cataclysm.