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

Overview

abstract

  • 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.

publication date

  • June 20, 2020

Research

keywords

  • Clinical Laboratory Techniques
  • Coronavirus Infections
  • Hospitals, Psychiatric
  • Pneumonia, Viral
  • Triage

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC7305510

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85086770028

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113244

PubMed ID

  • 32585435

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 291