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- Title
Challenges for mental health services during the 2020 COVID‐19 outbreak in Germany.
- Authors
Thome, Johannes; Coogan, Andrew N.; Fischer, Matthias; Tucha, Oliver; Faltraco, Frank
- Abstract
While minimizing the risk of exposure of patients and mental health professionals to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, it is vital that psychiatric patients (especially those with severe mental health problems) continue to receive the full range of psychiatric services. As such, it is key that mental health professionals liaise with decision-makers to safeguard the needs of psychiatric patients during emergency measures. Second, mental health services will need to treat COVID-19 patients; clear protocols need to be developed for patients with COVID-19 symptoms, including clear guidelines for when psychiatric patients need to be transferred to pulmonary services and for the treatment of patients who remain in psychiatric clinics (for example, the possibility of establishing specific psychiatric wards for COVID-19 patients).
- Subjects
GERMANY; MENTAL health services; COVID-19 pandemic; MENTAL health personnel; SARS-CoV-2; MEDICAL personnel as patients
- Publication
Psychiatry & Clinical Neurosciences, 2020, Vol 74, Issue 7, p407
- ISSN
1323-1316
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/pcn.13019