Psychiatry and COVID-19: putting our best foot forward.
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1192/bjp.2020.90 and PMC identifier 7256216.
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Abstract
COVID-19 presents new challenges for psychiatry as clinical management, ethical dilemmas and administrative complications need to be addressed. The psychiatrist should protect the needs and rights of the mentally ill while maximising population health and ensuring solidarity, reciprocity and community well-being for all.
Medical subject headings
- Coronavirus Infections
- Infection Control
- Mental Health Services
- Persons with Psychiatric Disorders
- Pandemics
- Pneumonia, Viral
- Psychiatry