- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Clinical practice guidelines implementation
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
- Media Influence and Health
- Healthcare Systems and Practices
- Arctic and Russian Policy Studies
- Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy
- Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
- Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management
- Influenza Virus Research Studies
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
- Antibiotic Use and Resistance
Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust
2020-2022
Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
2006
Green Cross International
1938
Background A number of community based surveys have identified an increase in psychological symptoms and distress but there has been no examination at the more severe end mental health spectrum. Aims We aimed to analyse numbers types psychiatric presentations inform planning for future demand on services light COVID-19 pandemic. Method analysed electronic data between January April 2020 2534 patients referred acute services, tested differences patient demographics, symptom severity use...
Background As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic in UK emerged and escalated, clinicians working mental health in-patient facilities faced unique medical, psychiatric staffing challenges managing containing impact of virus and, context legislation, enforcing social distancing. Aims To describe (a) steps taken by one hospital to establish a COVID-19 isolation ward for adult in-patients (b) how staff addressed that over period March June 2020. Method A descriptive study detailing...
his paper describes a three-month surveillance project performed to determine the incidence of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage on admission community hospitals in North Cumbria. The survey also attempted identify rate acquisition MRSA during study period. Study design and limitations are described. Results reveal that almost 9% admissions had previously undetected carriage. Discharge screening demonstrated 2.8% patients admitted period probably acquired their admission....
BackgroundWe aimed to analyse numbers and types of psychiatric presentations inform planning for future demand on mental health services in light the Covid-19 pandemic. MethodsWe analysed electronic data between January April 2020 2,534 patients referred acute services. We used interrupted time series analyses compare trends A&E before after lockdown, tested differences patients’ demographics, symptom severity, use Mental Health Act, lockdown.ResultsThere were 11% fewer first week...