From March 6, 2020 to May 9, 2020, Tokyo Metropolitan Matsuzawa Hospital admitted 73 patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 with a concomitant mental disorder were admitted to Tokyo Metropolitan Matsuzawa Hospital. As the number of individuals with COVID-19 increases in the general population, the number of patients with a psychiatric disorders who contract the disease is also likely to increase. The present report is the first to describe the healthcare system at the study center as of May 9, 2020, and includes an interim assessment of the characteristics of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 hospitalized there. Furthermore, some of the problems unique to patients with COVID-19 with the comorbidity of a concomitant mental disorder will be proposedare discussed as possible topics for future research.
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Interim Report on Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Admitted to a Psychiatric Hospital (Tokyo Metropolitan Matsuzawa Hospital)
1 Department of Psychiatry, Tokyo Metropolitan Matsuzawa Hospital
2 Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Metropolitan Matsuzawa Hospital
2 Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Metropolitan Matsuzawa Hospital
Psychiatria et Neurologia Japonica
122: 749-756, 2020
Accepted in revised form: 7 July 2020.
Accepted in revised form: 7 July 2020.
＜Keywords：Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), psychiatric and physical medicine, community psychiatric treatment, psychiatric emergency service＞
