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Review
. 2022 Mar;45(1):45-55.
doi: 10.1016/j.psc.2021.11.002. Epub 2021 Nov 11.

Inpatient Psychiatry During COVID-19: A Systems Perspective

Joshua Berezin  1 , Flavio Casoy  2 , Matthew D Erlich  1 , Yamilette Hernandez  2 , Thomas E Smith  3
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Review

Inpatient Psychiatry During COVID-19: A Systems Perspective

Joshua Berezin et al. Psychiatr Clin North Am. 2022 Mar.

Abstract

Numerous reports describe how individual hospitals responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, but few describe how these changes occurred across a large public health system of care. As the early epicenter of the pandemic, New York State's response, particularly the New York City metropolitan area, included a range of coordinated planning and regulatory efforts to preserve and create medical and intensive care unit capacity where needed; maintain access to acute psychiatric services; and redefine inpatient psychiatric care through strict infection control, easing of regulatory requirements, and use of telehealth. These strategies reflected similar efforts across the United States.

Keywords: COVID-19; Health care system; Infection control; Inpatient psychiatry; Telehealth.

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