Background: Involuntary psychiatric hospitalization (IPH) is a heavy and complex psychiatric exception measure. In the Seine-Saint-Denis department (low medical density), the evaluation of the patient in psychiatric decompensation is the responsibility of the out-of-hours general practitioners (GP) mandated by the call center. Their feeling is the non-achievement of the procedure once the patient arrives at the emergency room.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Worldwide, the COVID-19 epidemic has put health systems to the test. The excess mortality is partly due to the influx of patients requiring hospitalization and intensive care. We propose that the chronology of epidemic spread gives a window of time in which hospitals can act to prevent reaching capacity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClinical features of COVID-19 have been mostly described in hospitalized patients with and without ICU admission. Yet, up to 80% of patients are managed in an outpatient setting. This population is poorly documented.
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