The response of the mental health network of the Salamanca area to the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of the telemedicine.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic reached world-wide causing a great impact on healthcare services. The aim of this work is to describe the response of the Mental Health Network of the Salamanca´ Area (Spain) to this crisis and the reorganization of its resources within the first 8 weeks after the state of alarm was declared. The Psychiatry Service applied a contingency plan which included the reorganization of the human resources, the closure of some of the units and the implementation of telemedicine programs along with two specific programs, namely a mental health assistance program in the context of the infection by coronavirus, and another program for homeless people. 9.038 phone interviews were carried out in the outpatients and community mental health programs. The activity in subacute and acut

SUBMITTER: Roncero C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7329660 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature