A COVID-19 testing and triage algorithm for psychiatric units: One hospital's response to the New York region's pandemic

Psychiatric patients are at high risk for contracting COVID-19, and inpatient psychiatric units face substantial risks of institutional outbreaks. Here, the authors describe an algorithm for testing and triage in a large psychiatric facility designed to prevent local COVID-19 transmission. The algor...

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Autores principales: Brody, Benjamin D., Parish, Sharon J., Kanellopoulos, Dora, Russ, Mark J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier B.V. 2020
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7305510/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32585435
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113244
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description Psychiatric patients are at high risk for contracting COVID-19, and inpatient psychiatric units face substantial risks of institutional outbreaks. Here, the authors describe an algorithm for testing and triage in a large psychiatric facility designed to prevent local COVID-19 transmission. The algorithm is based on expert opinion and clinical experience between March and April of 2020, during which the institution cared for 47 COVID-19 positive psychiatric inpatients. The implementation of the algorithm is designed to mitigate COVID-19 transmission, preserve the safest and least restrictive treatment environment for psychiatric inpatients, and provide a model adaptable to other institutional settings.
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spelling pubmed-73055102020-06-22 A COVID-19 testing and triage algorithm for psychiatric units: One hospital's response to the New York region's pandemic Brody, Benjamin D. Parish, Sharon J. Kanellopoulos, Dora Russ, Mark J. Psychiatry Res Short Communication Psychiatric patients are at high risk for contracting COVID-19, and inpatient psychiatric units face substantial risks of institutional outbreaks. Here, the authors describe an algorithm for testing and triage in a large psychiatric facility designed to prevent local COVID-19 transmission. The algorithm is based on expert opinion and clinical experience between March and April of 2020, during which the institution cared for 47 COVID-19 positive psychiatric inpatients. The implementation of the algorithm is designed to mitigate COVID-19 transmission, preserve the safest and least restrictive treatment environment for psychiatric inpatients, and provide a model adaptable to other institutional settings. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2020-09 2020-06-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7305510/ /pubmed/32585435 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113244 Text en © 2020 The Authors Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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