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

Autor: Brody BD; Weill Cornell Medicine Psychiatry and New York Presbyterian Westchester Behavioral Health Center, 21 Bloomingdale Road, White Plains, NY 10605, United States. Electronic address: jeb9083@med.cornell.edu., Parish SJ; Weill Cornell Medicine Psychiatry and New York Presbyterian Westchester Behavioral Health Center, 21 Bloomingdale Road, White Plains, NY 10605, United States., Kanellopoulos D; Weill Cornell Medicine Psychiatry and New York Presbyterian Westchester Behavioral Health Center, 21 Bloomingdale Road, White Plains, NY 10605, United States., Russ MJ; Weill Cornell Medicine Psychiatry and New York Presbyterian Westchester Behavioral Health Center, 21 Bloomingdale Road, White Plains, NY 10605, United States.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Psychiatry research [Psychiatry Res] 2020 Sep; Vol. 291, pp. 113244. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Jun 20.
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113244
Abstrakt: 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.
Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest None of the authors report any grant support, other external funding, or other conflicts of interest.
(Copyright © 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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