Covid-19 cases in a no-Covid-19 geriatric acute care setting. A sporadic occurrence?

• Covid-19 cases are frequent in elderly patients admitted to acute no-Covid-19 units; • Healthcare personnel is at high risk to present coronavirus infection; • Hospital transmission of Covid-19 can be frequent in older individuals; • Maximum efforts should be given to screen patients and staff eve...

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Autores principales: Fumagalli, Stefano, Salani, Bernardo, Gabbani, Luciano, Mossello, Enrico, Ungar, Andrea
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Federation of Internal Medicine. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7190479/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32386946
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejim.2020.04.058
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Sumario:• Covid-19 cases are frequent in elderly patients admitted to acute no-Covid-19 units; • Healthcare personnel is at high risk to present coronavirus infection; • Hospital transmission of Covid-19 can be frequent in older individuals; • Maximum efforts should be given to screen patients and staff even if asymptomatic; • Prevention is very important for Covid-19 severe prognosis in older patients.

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