{"id":4755,"date":"2020-02-28T13:37:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T21:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4755"},"modified":"2021-02-23T13:38:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T21:38:11","slug":"the-risk-and-prevention-of-novel-coronavirus-pneumonia-infections-among-inpatients-in-psychiatric-hospitals-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/28\/the-risk-and-prevention-of-novel-coronavirus-pneumonia-infections-among-inpatients-in-psychiatric-hospitals-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Risk and Prevention of Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Infections Among Inpatients in Psychiatric Hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The authors describe an outbreak of COVID-19 at a state psychiatric inpatient hospital in Wuhan, China.\u00a0 Although the hospital closed the facility to visitors, there was widespread infection among the patients and staff.\u00a0 As of Feb 8, 2020 50 patients and 30 staff had been infected.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The authors noted several elements that contributed to the complexity of the outbreak and that may be taken into consideration for planning and preparedness efforts among especially vulnerable institutionalized populations. The authors offer several recommendations to improve patient outcomes, support staff, and connect with families of patients<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zhu et al. (Feb 25, 2020). The Risk and Prevention of Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Infections Among Inpatients in Psychiatric Hospitals. Neuroscience Bulletin. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s12264-020-00476-9\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s12264-020-00476-9<\/span><\/a> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The authors describe an outbreak of COVID-19 at a state psychiatric inpatient hospital in Wuhan, China.\u00a0 Although the hospital closed the facility to visitors, there was widespread infection among the patients and staff.\u00a0 As of Feb 8, 2020 50 patients and 30 staff had been infected.\u00a0 The authors noted several elements that contributed to the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/28\/the-risk-and-prevention-of-novel-coronavirus-pneumonia-infections-among-inpatients-in-psychiatric-hospitals-2\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-4755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4756,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755\/revisions\/4756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4755"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}