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Published Online: 23 April 2020

Challenges and Priorities in Responding to COVID-19 in Inpatient Psychiatry

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This Open Forum focuses on specific challenges, contingency planning considerations, and downstream impacts of COVID-19 on inpatient psychiatric care. COVID-19 is a novel coronavirus that has been declared a pandemic. Challenges for inpatient psychiatry include risky close contact among staff and patients, space constraints, and structural barriers in care delivery. Nuanced considerations of five contingency planning strategies in response to COVID-19 are described, including COVID-19-specific precautions, visitor restrictions, physician workforce considerations, operational adjustments, and group therapy changes. Organized leadership and clear communication are identified as early priorities in pandemic response to minimize misinformation and address immediate challenges.

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Pages: 624 - 626
PubMed: 32321388

History

Received: 14 March 2020
Revision received: 23 March 2020
Accepted: 2 April 2020
Published online: 23 April 2020
Published in print: June 01, 2020

Keywords

  1. Infection prevention
  2. Quality and safety
  3. Psychiatric leadership
  4. Administration and management
  5. Service delivery systems

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Luming Li, M.D. [email protected]
Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, and Yale New Haven Psychiatric Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut.

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Send correspondence to Dr. Li ([email protected]).

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The author reports no financial relationships with commercial interests.

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