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COVID-19 pandemic inpatient bed allocation planning – A Canada-wide approach
OBJECTIVE: A Canada-wide survey was disseminated to collect information regarding changes in processes related to providing care to patients on inpatient psychiatry units in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our aim was to share this information with those who have an interest in problem-solving th...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7831391/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33431231 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2020.12.015 |
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author | Paletta, Antonio Yu, Dorothy Li, Daniel Sareen, Jitender |
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description | OBJECTIVE: A Canada-wide survey was disseminated to collect information regarding changes in processes related to providing care to patients on inpatient psychiatry units in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our aim was to share this information with those who have an interest in problem-solving these significant and unique challenges. METHOD: The survey was distributed through the Association of Chairs of Psychiatry of Canada to Department Heads of Psychiatry at all sixteen medical schools. Information was collected via SurveyMonkey April 26–May 9, 2020. Eleven psychiatrists representing 11 different Canadian city/centre/zone(s) completed the survey. RESULTS: Information was collected about process changes: physical separation on the wards, symptom and vital signs screening, testing, isolation, rationales for number of beds allocated for COVID-positive, −suspect and -negative patients and for selecting a particular hospital to provide care to these different groupings of patients. One subsection of the information is presented in this letter. Further information is available upon request. CONCLUSION: Similarities and differences existed between city/centre/zone(s) regarding approaches to providing care to patients on inpatient psychiatry wards. Significant preparation and consideration was put into determining necessary changes in response to this pandemic, and this is reflected in the information provided from each city/centre/zone. |
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spelling | pubmed-78313912021-01-26 COVID-19 pandemic inpatient bed allocation planning – A Canada-wide approach Paletta, Antonio Yu, Dorothy Li, Daniel Sareen, Jitender Gen Hosp Psychiatry Letter to the Editor OBJECTIVE: A Canada-wide survey was disseminated to collect information regarding changes in processes related to providing care to patients on inpatient psychiatry units in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our aim was to share this information with those who have an interest in problem-solving these significant and unique challenges. METHOD: The survey was distributed through the Association of Chairs of Psychiatry of Canada to Department Heads of Psychiatry at all sixteen medical schools. Information was collected via SurveyMonkey April 26–May 9, 2020. Eleven psychiatrists representing 11 different Canadian city/centre/zone(s) completed the survey. RESULTS: Information was collected about process changes: physical separation on the wards, symptom and vital signs screening, testing, isolation, rationales for number of beds allocated for COVID-positive, −suspect and -negative patients and for selecting a particular hospital to provide care to these different groupings of patients. One subsection of the information is presented in this letter. Further information is available upon request. CONCLUSION: Similarities and differences existed between city/centre/zone(s) regarding approaches to providing care to patients on inpatient psychiatry wards. Significant preparation and consideration was put into determining necessary changes in response to this pandemic, and this is reflected in the information provided from each city/centre/zone. Elsevier Inc. 2021 2020-12-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7831391/ /pubmed/33431231 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2020.12.015 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. 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. |
spellingShingle | Letter to the Editor Paletta, Antonio Yu, Dorothy Li, Daniel Sareen, Jitender COVID-19 pandemic inpatient bed allocation planning – A Canada-wide approach |
title | COVID-19 pandemic inpatient bed allocation planning – A Canada-wide approach |
title_full | COVID-19 pandemic inpatient bed allocation planning – A Canada-wide approach |
title_fullStr | COVID-19 pandemic inpatient bed allocation planning – A Canada-wide approach |
title_full_unstemmed | COVID-19 pandemic inpatient bed allocation planning – A Canada-wide approach |
title_short | COVID-19 pandemic inpatient bed allocation planning – A Canada-wide approach |
title_sort | covid-19 pandemic inpatient bed allocation planning – a canada-wide approach |
topic | Letter to the Editor |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7831391/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33431231 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2020.12.015 |
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