SARS-CoV-2 Risk Management in Clinical Psychiatry: A Few Considerations on How to Deal With an Unrivaled Threat

The pandemic spread of the corona virus SARS-CoV-2 has even-handedly shattered national and international health systems and economies almost in an instant. As numbers of infections and COVID-19–related deaths rise from day to day, fears and uncertainties on how to deal with this unknown threat are extremely present both for individuals and societies as a whole. In this manuscript, we aim to exemplarily describe the bullet points concerning (a) the internal risk management, (b) the organizational and structural changes, and (c) the communicational strategies applied in a Psychiatric University Hospital in the Southern part of Germany. The authors are well aware about the fact that almost none of these considerations may be considered as evidence-based at the moment. However, the authors trust that these reflections and experiences may be useful as an orientation for similar risk constellations in other afflicted countries due to the temporal delay of the pandemic course..

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in Psychiatry - 11(2020)

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Peter M. Kreuzer [VerfasserIn]
Thomas C. Baghai [VerfasserIn]
Rainer Rupprecht [VerfasserIn]
Markus Wittmann [VerfasserIn]
Dagmar Steffling [VerfasserIn]
Michael Ziereis [VerfasserIn]
Marc Zowe [VerfasserIn]
Helmut Hausner [VerfasserIn]
Berthold Langguth [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Clinical psychiatry
Corona virus
Hospital management
Pandemia
Pandemic
Psychiatry
SARS-CoV-2

doi:

10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00550

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

DOAJ038881454