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PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH
Volume 303, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2021.114071
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COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; Spanish flu; Influenza; Psychiatry; Emergency admissions; Mental health
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By comparing the medical records of the Spanish flu and the COVID-19 pandemic, it was found that both did not lead to an increase in emergency psychiatric admissions, which is consistent with research findings in Europe.
The last pandemic comparable to the current COVID-19 pandemic was the Spanish flu. Using the admission record books for the years 1917 and 1918 and electronic health records for the years 2019 and 2020, we extracted the relevant data and explored how they affected the numbers of emergency psychiatric admissions. The general trend in both pandemics was that they did not cause a rise in psychiatric admissions, findings which go along with reports around Europe. The causes for these similarities are complex but provide an interesting perspective as to why there is no concurrent rise in emergency psychiatric admissions.
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