Weill Cornell Medicine Psychiatry and New York Presbyterian Westchester Behavioral Health Center, 21 Bloomingdale Road, White Plains, NY 10605, United States.
Weill Cornell Medicine Psychiatry and New York Presbyterian Westchester Behavioral Health Center, 21 Bloomingdale Road, White Plains, NY 10605, United States.
Psychiatry Res. 2022 Oct;316:114746. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2022.114746. Epub 2022 Jul 27.
The increased transmissibility of the omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus resulted in a rapid increase in infection among many psychiatric inpatients in our hospital between December 2021 and February 2022. This required our institution to close affected units to new admissions. In response, we implemented a model utilizing universal SARS-CoV-2 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing at the time of admission, the development of "admitting units" where all patients were quarantined for four days followed by repeat PCR testing, and subsequent transition to COVID-19 negative and COVID-19 positive "receiving units" based on the results of the second test. No unit closures occurred following full implementation of the model.
2021 年 12 月至 2022 年 2 月期间，SARS-CoV-2 病毒的奥密克戎变异株传播性增强，导致我院许多精神科住院患者感染迅速增加。这要求我们医院关闭受影响的病房，停止接收新病人。为此，我们实施了一种模式，即在入院时进行通用的 SARS-CoV-2 聚合酶链反应（PCR）检测，建立“收治病房”，所有患者在那里隔离四天，然后进行重复 PCR 检测，然后根据第二次检测的结果，转为 COVID-19 阴性和 COVID-19 阳性的“收治病房”。在全面实施该模式后，没有发生病房关闭的情况。
