Proactive use of QI methodology in consultation-liaison psychiatry to support the opening of a new COVID+ behavioral health inpatient unit during the omicron surge.
Gen Hosp Psychiatry
; 81: 43-45, 2023.
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| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2210303
ABSTRACT
Inpatient consultation-liaison (CL) psychiatry teams routinely facilitate the transfer of medically stable patients in behavioral health crisis from the general hospital to inpatient psychiatric units. The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on this process when inpatient psychiatric units were unable to provide care for patients with asymptomatic COVID-19 infection because of infection control concerns in units unable to accommodate isolation precautions. Similar to other disrupted hospital workflows, these clinical handoffs became more complicated by requiring COVID exposed or COVID+ patients in the midst of behavioral health crisis to quarantine or isolate on general hospital units if not otherwise stable for discharge to the community. To better respond to the growing number of patients isolating in the general hospital during the 2022 Omicron surge, we used quality improvement (QI) methodology to illustrate the need to create a COVID+ unit in the inpatient psychiatric hospital to care for the growing cohort of COVID+ patients in psychiatric crisis who were otherwise unable to access traditional psychiatric hospital care because of their isolation status.
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Asunto principal:
Psiquiatría
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COVID-19
Tipo de estudio:
Estudio de cohorte
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Estudio observacional
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Estudio pronóstico
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Investigación cualitativa
Tópicos:
Variantes
Límite:
Humanos
Idioma:
Inglés
Revista:
Gen Hosp Psychiatry
Año:
2023
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