Community Emergency Medicine: the right care, at the right time, in the right place
https://doi.org/10.4081/ecj.2022.10595
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Dear Editors,
The deep, ongoing crisis of Emergency Medicine (EM) is, sadly, a well-recognised problem of the Italian National Health Care System.
As beautifully outlined in the editorial by Coen et al.,1 the systematic disruption of Public Health Care, with progressively more significant cuts to the number of hospital beds and to primary care and community services has irreversibly changed the quality of care we can provide to our patients. [...]
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