VIDEOCARE: Decentralised psychiatric emergency care through videoconferencing

VIDEOCARE: Decentralised psychiatric emergency care through videoconferencing

BACKGROUND Today the availability of specialists is limited for psychiatric patients in rural areas, especially during psychiatric emergencies. To overcome this challenge, the University Hospital of North Norway has implemented a new decentralised on-call system in psychiatric emergencies, by which psychiatrists are accessible by videoconference 24/7. In September 2011, the new on-call system w...

Telepsychiatry: videoconferencing in the delivery of psychiatric care.

The provision of psychiatric treatment via live interactive videoconferencing, frequently termed telepsychiatry, is a viable option for psychiatrists to provide care to individual patients, populations, and communities faced with limited access and to move the point of care delivery into patients' living environments. Psychiatric providers new to videoconferencing should not be intimidated by t...

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Primary care patients in psychiatric clinical trials: a pilot study using videoconferencing

BACKGROUND While primary care physicians play a pivotal role in the treatment of depression, collaboration between primary care and psychiatry in clinical research has been limited. Primary care settings provide unique opportunities to improve the methodology of psychiatric clinical trials, by providing more generalizable and less treatment-resistant patients. We examined the feasibility of ide...

Stress: a pervasive dilemma in psychiatric emergency care.

This paper (1) identifies a number of broad social-situational forces which have had stress producing impact upon the treatment climate and procedures of the psychiatric emergency setting. (2) describes several of the major effects of these factors both on patients and on the emergency Unlt, (3) applies a person-environment fit (or “mis-fit”) perspective in conceptualizing the stress-related pr...