AUTHOR=Kreuzer Peter M. , Baghai Thomas C. , Rupprecht Rainer , Wittmann Markus , Steffling Dagmar , Ziereis Michael , Zowe Marc , Hausner Helmut , Langguth Berthold 

TITLE=SARS-CoV-2 Risk Management in Clinical Psychiatry: A Few Considerations on How to Deal With an Unrivaled Threat

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychiatry

VOLUME=Volume 11 - 2020

YEAR=2020

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00550

DOI=10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00550

ISSN=1664-0640

ABSTRACT=The pandemic spread of the corona virus SARS-CoV-2 has even-handedly shattered national and international health systems and economies almost in an instant. As numbers of infections and COVID-19-related deaths rise from day to day, fears and uncertainties on how to deal with this unknown threat are extremely present both for individuals and societies as a whole. 
In this manuscript we aim to exemplarily describe the bullet points concerning (a) the internal risk management, (b) the organizational and structural changes and (c) the communicational strategies applied in a Psychiatric University Hospital in the South-ern part of Germany. 
The authors are well aware about the fact that almost none of these considerations may be considered as evidence-based at the moment. However, the authors trust that these reflections and experiences may be useful as an orientation for similar risk con-stellations in other afflicted countries due to the temporal delay of the pandemic course.