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Greatly increased Victorian outpatient private psychiatric care during the COVID-19 pandemic: new MBS-telehealth-item and face-to-face psychiatrist office-based services from April-September 2020.

Jeffrey C L LooiStephen AllisonMeshary Khaled N AlotibyWilliam PringRebecca E ReayTarun Bastiampillai
Published in: Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (2021)
During the pandemic, Victorian private psychiatrists used COVID-19-MBS-telehealth-items to substantially increase the number of total patient care consultations for 2020 compared to 2019.
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