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Psychiatry research · Sep 2020
A COVID-19 testing and triage algorithm for psychiatric units: One hospital's response to the New York region's pandemic.
- Benjamin D Brody, Sharon J Parish, Dora Kanellopoulos, and Mark J Russ.
- Weill Cornell Medicine Psychiatry and New York Presbyterian Westchester Behavioral Health Center, 21 Bloomingdale Road, White Plains, NY 10605, United States. Electronic address: jeb9083@med.cornell.edu.
- Psychiatry Res. 2020 Sep 1; 291: 113244.
AbstractPsychiatric 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.Copyright © 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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