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
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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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description • 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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spelling pubmed-71904792020-04-30 Covid-19 cases in a no-Covid-19 geriatric acute care setting. A sporadic occurrence? Fumagalli, Stefano Salani, Bernardo Gabbani, Luciano Mossello, Enrico Ungar, Andrea Eur J Intern Med Article • 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. European Federation of Internal Medicine. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2020-07 2020-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7190479/ /pubmed/32386946 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejim.2020.04.058 Text en © 2020 European Federation of Internal Medicine. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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