Letters to the Editor
11 June 2024
Vol. 18 No. 2 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.4081/itjm.2024.1746

Area of admission and short-term care: is it still possible after the COVID pandemic?

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Francesco Serafini
serafini.france@gmail.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1399-6359
Complex Operating Unit of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine and Onco-Hematology with Urgent Care character, Ospedale dell’Angelo, Mestre (VE), Italy.
Elia Vettore
Complex Operating Unit of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine and Onco-Hematology with Urgent Care character, Ospedale dell’Angelo, Mestre (VE), Italy.
Fabio Presotto
Complex Operating Unit of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine and Onco-Hematology with Urgent Care character, Ospedale dell’Angelo, Mestre (VE), Italy.

Dear Editor, Since 2011, the Internal Medical Unit of Ospedale dell’Angelo, Mestre, has been equipped with an area of eight beds which served as a short-stay unit called area di accoglimento e degenza breve (area of admission and short-term care, ADB). All patients coming from the emergency room (99%) passed through the ADB area. Here, doctors and nurses carried out an initial clinical care triage to identify patients with features that made the discharge possible within 72 hours. [...]

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Area of admission and short-term care: is it still possible after the COVID pandemic?. (2024). Italian Journal of Medicine, 18(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/itjm.2024.1746
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