The Emergency Rooms and Emergency Medicine should not be the answer to the weakness of the Italian National Health System
Erika Poggiali, Greta Barbieri, Veronica Salvatore, Francesco Salinaro
Abstract
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. [...]
Topics & Concepts
MedicineWeaknessPandemicCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Medical emergencyFamily medicineDiseasePathologySurgeryInfectious disease (medical specialty)Emergency and Acute Care Studies