The Emergency Rooms and Emergency Medicine should not be the answer to the weakness of the Italian National Health System


Published: 20 December 2021
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Authors

  • Erika Poggiali Emergency Department, Guglielmo da Saliceto Hospital, Piacenza, Italy.
  • Greta Barbieri Department of Surgical, Medical, Molecular and Critical Area Pathology, University of Pisa, Italy; Emergency Medicine Department, Pisa University Hospital, Italy., Italy.
  • Veronica Salvatore Emergency Department, Medicina d'Urgenza e Pronto Soccorso, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Italy, Italy.
  • Francesco Salinaro Emergency Medicine Unit, IRCCS Polyclinic San Matteo Foundation, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy., Italy.

Dear Editors,

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted several and wellknown limits of the Italian national health system, including the weakness of the territorial medical services and the absence of dedicated structures for patients affected by chronic or end-stage diseases in need of long hospitalization, or with social difficulties. [...]


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Poggiali, E., Barbieri, G., Salvatore, V., & Salinaro, F. (2021). The Emergency Rooms and Emergency Medicine should not be the answer to the weakness of the Italian National Health System. Emergency Care Journal, 17(4). https://doi.org/10.4081/ecj.2021.10304

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