The Effects of the 1st National COVID 19 Lockdown on Emergency Psychiatric Visit Trends in a Tertiary General Hospital in Israel

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OBJECTIVE: To examine whether the 1st COVID-19 lockdown in Israel affected emergency psychiatric presentations in a general hospital.

METHOD: We studied files of patients who underwent psychiatric consultation in the emergency-room (ER) at the Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center during a lockdown imposed in 2020. Parallel data were obtained from 2017-2019, as control.

RESULTS: The number of psychiatric consultations dropped during the lockdown period; an increased relative number of compulsory psychiatric hospitalizations was documented and a decreased rate of consented psychiatric hospitalizations.

DISCUSSION: Less psychiatric patients approached the ER during the lockdown period, pointing to an urgent need to facilitate access to psychiatric care in future times of crisis.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:300

Enthalten in:

Psychiatry research - 300(2021) vom: 05. Juni, Seite 113903

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Dvorak, Lior [VerfasserIn]
Sar-El, Roy [VerfasserIn]
Mordel, Clara [VerfasserIn]
Schreiber, Shaul [VerfasserIn]
Tene, Oren [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19-lockdown
Emergency-room
Journal Article
Psychiatry

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Date Completed 14.06.2021

Date Revised 17.12.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.psychres.2021.113903

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM323546846