Reduction of the emergency activity, during the Covid 19 Italian lockdown, what's the lesson to learn?
| Autor: | Marco Inama, L Alberti, H G Impellizzeri, G Moretto, M Bacchion, T F Cappellari, M Creciun, A Casaril |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
SARS-CoV-2 business.industry Health Policy Social distance Declaration COVID-19 medicine.disease Article Medical services Health services Health problems Italy Communicable Disease Control Pandemic Humans Medicine Medical emergency Emergencies Data reporting Emergency Service Hospital business |
| Zdroj: | Health Policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands) |
| ISSN: | 0168-8510 |
| Popis: | The COVID 19 pandemic was declared on the 9th of March 2020. The health crisis affected the whole world with a very high and unexpected number of infected people. The situation forced the declaration of lockdown and a worldwide health system reorganization. Surprisingly, the social distancing laws caused a reduction of urgent hospital activities not COVID 19 related. The aim of this manuscript is to analyze the reasons why fewer emergencies were described during the 2020 Italian lockdown. The Data reporting urgent Emergency Room (ER) activity, during the first three weeks of the Italian lockdown (Group 1), were analyzed and compared with the same period in 2019 (Group 2). During the study period in 2020, there was a 46,5% reduction in ER activity compared to that in 2019. Nevertheless, the hospitalization rate was higher in the 2020 then in 2019 (p |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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