Treatment of COVID-19 Patients in Italy: A Physician’s Experience and Insights

The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Italy, the first Western country hit by the pandemic, seriously impacted the Italian healthcare system and social and economic environment. This perspective piece focuses on the main challenges faced by Italian hospital managements: hospital ove...

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Autores principales: Gilad, Vered, Masoero, Giovanni
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Rambam Health Care Campus 2020
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Special Issue on the COVID-19 Pandemic
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7426547/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32792048
http://dx.doi.org/10.5041/RMMJ.10419
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spelling pubmed-74265472020-08-25 Treatment of COVID-19 Patients in Italy: A Physician’s Experience and Insights Gilad, Vered Masoero, Giovanni Rambam Maimonides Med J Special Issue on the COVID-19 Pandemic The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Italy, the first Western country hit by the pandemic, seriously impacted the Italian healthcare system and social and economic environment. This perspective piece focuses on the main challenges faced by Italian hospital managements: hospital overcrowding; the need for urgent reorganization of the country’s healthcare systems; the lack of data regarding COVID-19 diagnostics, clinical course, and effective treatment; individual and collective consequences of the crisis; and the importance of disease containment measures and early treatment strategies. Rambam Health Care Campus 2020-07-31 /pmc/articles/PMC7426547/ /pubmed/32792048 http://dx.doi.org/10.5041/RMMJ.10419 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Gilad and Masoero This is an open-access article. All its content, except where otherwise noted, is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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