Department of Psychiatry, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center & Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Department of Psychiatry, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center & Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel; Sagol Brain Institute, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Psychiatry Res. 2021 Jun;300:113903. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2021.113903. Epub 2021 Mar 23.
To examine whether the 1 COVID-19 lockdown in Israel affected emergency psychiatric presentations in a general hospital.
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.
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.
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.
研究 2020 年以色列实施的一次新冠疫情封锁是否对综合医院的急诊精神科就诊产生影响。
我们研究了在特拉维夫索拉斯基医疗中心急诊室(ER)进行精神科会诊的患者档案,这些档案来自于 2017-2019 年的同期数据,作为对照组。
在封锁期间,精神科会诊数量有所下降;记录到强制住院的相对数量增加,而同意住院的比例则下降。
在封锁期间,较少的精神科患者前往 ER,这表明在未来的危机时期迫切需要为精神科护理提供便利。