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As outpatient services decline, telehealth rises for SMI patients
Author(s) -
Canady Valerie A.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.32793
Subject(s) - telehealth , covid-19 , pandemic , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , medicine , mental health , telemedicine , health care , psychiatry , gerontology , political science , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law
In the early months of the COVID‐19 pandemic in the United States, rates of outpatient health care visits declined substantially, say researchers of a new study who pointed to substantial increases in telehealth delivery for patients with schizophrenia along with decreases in visits to community mental health centers (CMHCs) and partial‐day hospitalizations.