Caring for patients in mental health services during COVID-19 outbreak in China

This article reflects on some radical changes made in mental health services in China which include the implementation of the initial triage system and the special isolation ward, the early screening and testing for both patients and staff, the smaller teams working on rotating shifts on-site, and t...

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Autores principales: Hou, Ruihua, Yang, Limin, Tang, Zhen, Chen, Teng
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680556/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33292362
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12991-020-00317-z
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spelling pubmed-76805562020-11-23 Caring for patients in mental health services during COVID-19 outbreak in China Hou, Ruihua Yang, Limin Tang, Zhen Chen, Teng Ann Gen Psychiatry Commentary This article reflects on some radical changes made in mental health services in China which include the implementation of the initial triage system and the special isolation ward, the early screening and testing for both patients and staff, the smaller teams working on rotating shifts on-site, and the adequate provision of PPE. These measures would be of great value as a reference to the effective delivery of mental health services in other countries through this pandemic. BioMed Central 2020-11-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7680556/ /pubmed/33292362 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12991-020-00317-z Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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