En France, 71 000 personnes ont été hospitalisées sans leur consentement en psychiatrie, en 2010. Le taux de recours à l’hospitalisation sans consentement varie fortement géographiquement, à la fois entre pays et à l’intérieur d’un pays. Si la contrainte aux soins est une exception psychiatrique, le soin librement consenti reste privilégié et majoritaire. Nécessaire dans certains cas, elle pose des questions en termes d’atteinte aux libertés des personnes et constitue une problématique majeure pour les équipes soignantes et les personnes concernées. À partir de l’exploitation des données du recueil d’informations médicalisées en psychiatrie, la présente étude propose de décrire cette population, de mesurer la variabilité géographique du recours aux soins sans consentement, et d’explorer le rôle de l’environnement géographique, socio-économique et sanitaire dans les disparités observées. Elle conclut au rôle prépondérant du contexte social et économique pour expliquer cette variabilité.
Background
The French syndromic surveillance (SyS) system, SurSaUD®, was one of the systems used to monitor the COVID-19 outbreak.
Aim
This study described the epidemiological characteristics of COVID-19-related visits to both emergency departments (EDs) and the network of emergency general practitioners known as SOS Médecins (SOSMed) in France from 17 February to 28 June 2020.
Methods
Data on all visits to 634 EDs and 60 SOSMed associations were collected daily. COVID-19-related visits were identified using ICD-10 codes after coding recommendations were sent to all ED and SOSMed doctors. The time course of COVID-19-related visits was described by age group and region. During the lockdown period, the characteristics of ED and SOSMed visits and hospitalisations after visits were described by age group and gender. The most frequent diagnoses associated with COVID-19-related visits were analysed.
Results
COVID-19 SyS was implemented on 29 February and 4 March for EDs and SOSMed, respectively. A total of 170,113 ED and 59,087 SOSMed visits relating to COVID-19 were recorded, representing 4.0% and 5.6% of the overall coded activity with a peak in late March representing 22.5% and 25% of all ED and SOSMed visits, respectively. COVID-19-related visits were most frequently reported for women and those aged 15–64 years, although patients who were subsequently hospitalised were more often men and persons aged 65 years and older.
Conclusion
SyS allowed for population health monitoring of the COVID-19 epidemic in France. As SyS has more than 15 years of historical data with high quality and reliability, it was considered sufficiently robust to contribute to defining the post-lockdown strategy.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.