Resumption of respiratory outpatient services in the COVID-19 era: Experience from Southern Italy

COVID-19 pandemic turned the entire health-care system organization upside-down, suspending elective activities and outpatient services. In Italy, we are entering a second phase of the pandemic and several strategies have been developed to “re-open” the country, some businesses, and also health care...

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Autores principales: Crimi, Claudia, Impellizzeri, Pietro, Campisi, Raffaele, Spicuzza, Lucia, Vancheri, Carlo, Crimi, Nunzio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2020
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Practice Forum
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7329653/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32621858
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.06.210
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author Crimi, Claudia
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description COVID-19 pandemic turned the entire health-care system organization upside-down, suspending elective activities and outpatient services. In Italy, we are entering a second phase of the pandemic and several strategies have been developed to “re-open” the country, some businesses, and also health care outpatient activities. This manuscript describes the experience of a Southern Italy Respiratory Unit for safely resuming outpatient respiratory services and preventing COVID-19 transmission.
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spelling pubmed-73296532020-07-02 Resumption of respiratory outpatient services in the COVID-19 era: Experience from Southern Italy Crimi, Claudia Impellizzeri, Pietro Campisi, Raffaele Spicuzza, Lucia Vancheri, Carlo Crimi, Nunzio Am J Infect Control Practice Forum COVID-19 pandemic turned the entire health-care system organization upside-down, suspending elective activities and outpatient services. In Italy, we are entering a second phase of the pandemic and several strategies have been developed to “re-open” the country, some businesses, and also health care outpatient activities. This manuscript describes the experience of a Southern Italy Respiratory Unit for safely resuming outpatient respiratory services and preventing COVID-19 transmission. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2020-09 2020-07-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7329653/ /pubmed/32621858 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.06.210 Text en © 2020 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 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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