A Rapid Ethnographic Assessment of the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Health Services Delivery in an Acute Care Medical Emergency Department and Trauma Center
| Autor: | Douglas F. Zatzick, Kathleen Moloney, Lauren K. Whiteside, Lawrence A. Palinkas, Allison Engstrom |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Mental Health Services
medicine.medical_specialty Ethnography Rapid assessment Health informatics Health administration Trauma Centers Acute care medicine Humans Pandemics Anthropology Cultural business.industry SARS-CoV-2 Health Policy Public health Trauma center Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health COVID-19 Workload Trauma care Emergency department medicine.disease Mental health Psychiatry and Mental health Original Article Medical emergency Pshychiatric Mental Health business Emergency Service Hospital Delivery of Health Care |
| Zdroj: | Administration and Policy in Mental Health |
| ISSN: | 1573-3289 0894-587X |
| Popis: | A rapid ethnographic assessment of delivery of mental health services to patients at a Level I trauma center in a major metropolitan hospital undergoing a COVID-19 surge was conducted to assess the challenges involved in services delivery and to compare the experience of delivering services across time. Study participants were patients and providers who interacted with or otherwise were observed by three clinicians engaged in the delivery of care within the Emergency Department (ED) and Trauma Center at Harborview Medical Center from the COVID-19-related "surge" in April to the end of July 2020. Data were collected and analyzed in accordance with the Rapid Assessment Procedures-Informed Clinical Ethnography (RAPICE) protocol. Community and institutional efforts to control the spread of the coronavirus created several challenges to providing mental health services in an acute care setting during the April surge. Most of these challenges were successfully addressed by standardization of infection control protocols, but new challenges emerged including an increase in expenses for infection control and reduction in clinical revenues due to fewer patients, furloughs of mental health services providers and peer specialists in the ED, services not provided or delayed, increased stress due to fear of furloughs or increased workload of those not furloughed, and increases in patients seen with injuries due to risky behavior, violence, and substance use. These findings illustrate the rapidly shifting nature of the pandemic, its impacts on mental health services, and the mitigation efforts of communities and healthcare systems. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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