ReviewGeneral hospital psychiatry
COVID-19 and telepsychiatry: Early outpatient experiences and implications for the future.
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105 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 237 citations in OpenAlex.
- Burnout in residents during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Patient and provider perspectives of the implementation of remote consultations for community-dwelling people with mental health conditions: A systematic mixed studies review.Journal of psychiatric research · 2022Pooled it
- Implementation, Adoption, and Perceptions of Telemental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Pooled it
- The Early Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Health Facilities and Psychiatric Professionals.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Priority Given to Technology in Government-Based Mental Health and Addictions Vision and Strategy Documents: Systematic Policy Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Pooled it
- Primary Care Physician Adherence to Telepsychiatry Recommendations: Intermediate Outcomes from a Randomized Clinical Trial.Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association · 2022Trial
- At-Home Telehealth-Supported Subcutaneous Ketamine Therapy for Safety, Feasibility, and Clinical Outcomes in Adults With Moderate to Severe Depression, Anxiety, or Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in a Large, Heterogeneous Cohort in the United States: Retrospective Cohort Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- Projected Deficiencies in the Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Workforce in the USA: A Call to Action.Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry · 2026Article
- Telepsychiatry in child and adolescent mental healthcare: clinicians' perspectives on lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- Child and adolescent psychiatry: challenges, solutions, opportunities, and future directions.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2026Article
- Evaluating Clinical Outcomes and Physician Adoption of Telemedicine for Chronic Disease Management: Population-Based Retrospective Cohort Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
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- Professional mental health aid for children, adolescents, and young adults during COVID-19 in Flanders, Belgium.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Outpatient mental health care during high incidence phases of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany - changes in utilization, challenges and post-COVID care.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2024Article
- Impact of Digital Inclusion Initiative to Facilitate Access to Mental Health Services: Service User Interview Study.JMIR mental health · 2024Article
- Screening for Pelvic Floor Disorders and Sexual Dysfunction in Postpartum Women: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Cureus · 2024Article
- Videoconferencing in mental health services for children and adolescents receiving child welfare services: a scoping review.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Lifestyles and Quality of Life of People with Mental Illness During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Community mental health journal · 2024Article
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- Technology-Assisted Parenting Intervention Plus Therapist Coaching: A Pilot Randomized Trial in a Community Practice Setting.Evidence-based practice in child and adolescent mental health · 2024Article
45 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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12 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically transformed the U.S. healthcare landscape. Within psychiatry, a sudden relaxing of insurance and regulatory barriers during the month of March 2020 enabled clinicians practicing in a wide range of settings to quickly adopt virtual care in order to provide critical ongoing mental health supports to both existing and new patients struggling with the pandemic's impact. In this article, we briefly review the extensive literature supporting the effectiveness of telepsychiatry relative to in-person mental health care, and describe how payment and regulatory challenges were the primary barriers preventing more widespread adoption of this treatment modality prior to COVID-19. We then review key changes that were implemented at the federal, state, professional, and insurance levels over a one-month period that helped usher in an unprecedented transformation in psychiatric care delivery, from mostly in-person to mostly virtual. Early quality improvement data regarding virtual visit volumes and clinical insights from our outpatient psychiatry department located within a large, urban, tertiary care academic medical center reflect both the opportunities and challenges of virtual care for patients and providers. Notable benefits have included robust clinical volumes despite social distancing mandates, reduced logistical barrieres to care for many patients, and decreased no-show rates. Finally, we provide clinical suggestions for optimizing telepsychiatry based on our experience, make a call for advocacy to continue the reduced insurance and regulatory restrictions affecting telepsychiatry even once this public health crisis has passed, and pose research questions that can help guide optimal utilization of telepsychiatry as mainstay or adjunct of outpatient psychiatric treatment now and in the future.
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