100 Years apart: Psychiatric admissions during Spanish flu and COVID-19 pandemic.

Autor: Vukojević J; University psychiatric hospital Vrapče, Zagreb, Croatia. Electronic address: jaksa.vukojevic@bolnica-vrapce.hr., Đuran N; University psychiatric hospital Vrapče, Zagreb, Croatia., Žaja N; University psychiatric hospital Vrapče, Zagreb, Croatia., Sušac J; University psychiatric hospital Vrapče, Zagreb, Croatia., Šekerija M; Croatian Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia; University of Zagreb, Medical school, Zagreb, Croatia., Savić A; University psychiatric hospital Vrapče, Zagreb, Croatia; University of Zagreb, Medical school, Zagreb, Croatia.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Psychiatry research [Psychiatry Res] 2021 Sep; Vol. 303, pp. 114071. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Jun 24.
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2021.114071
Abstrakt: The last pandemic comparable to the current COVID-19 pandemic was the Spanish flu. Using the admission record books for the years 1917 and 1918 and electronic health records for the years 2019 and 2020, we extracted the relevant data and explored how they affected the numbers of emergency psychiatric admissions. The general trend in both pandemics was that they did not cause a rise in psychiatric admissions, findings which go along with reports around Europe. The causes for these similarities are complex but provide an interesting perspective as to why there is no concurrent rise in emergency psychiatric admissions.
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