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Jonathan Mathias Fasshauer1,2, Andreas Bollmann3, Sven Hohenstein3
1Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie, HELIOS Park-Klinikum Leipzig.
Objective:
The impact of the COVID-19 year on the number of daily psychiatric emergency admissions and length of stay was compared with previous years.
Methods:
In a retrospective study, the four quarters of 2020 of several psychiatric hospitals in Germany were statistically compared with the respective quarters of 2018 and 2019.
Results:
A total of 73,412 cases was analyzed. In the 2nd quarter of 2020, the number of daily admissions was significantly lower as compared to the control period (59.1 vs. 70.7; incidence rate ratio [95 % confidence interval] 0.81 [0.69; 0.96]; p = 0.012). Length of stay was numerically but not significantly different as compared to the control periods.
Conclusion:
The COVID-19 pandemic had a strong impact on inpatient psychiatric care. In the future, multimodal care structures must ensure the care of severely mentally ill people in crisis situations.
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