When patients refuse COVID-19 testing, quarantine, and social distancing in inpatient psychiatry: clinical and ethical challenges. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced new ethical challenges in the care of patients with serious psychiatric illness who require inpatient treatment and who may have beeen exposed to COVID-19 or have mild to moderate COVID-19 but refuse testing and adherence to infection prevention protocols. Such situations increase the risk of infection to other patients and staff on psychiatric inpatient units. We discuss medical and ethical considerations for navigating this dilemma and offer a set of policy recommendations.

publication date

  • July 10, 2020

Research

keywords

  • Clinical Laboratory Techniques
  • Coronavirus Infections
  • Ethics, Medical
  • Hospitalization
  • Mental Disorders
  • Pandemics
  • Pneumonia, Viral
  • Quarantine
  • Refusal to Participate

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC7371475

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85090079030

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1136/medethics-2020-106613

PubMed ID

  • 32651254

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 46

issue

  • 9