An Italian Guidance Model for the Management of Suspected or Confirmed COVID-19 Patients in the Primary Care Setting

Frontiers in Public Health

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Noemi Lopes¹  Federica Vernuccio²  Claudio Costantino⁵  Claudia Imburgia⁶  Cesare Gregoretti⁷  Salvatore Salomone⁹  Filippo Drago⁹  Giuliano Lo Bianco⁸ 

[1] Provincial Health Authority of Palermo;Centro Neurolesi Bonino Pulejo Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico - Scientific Institutes of Hospitalization and Care (IRCCS);Department of Science for Health Promotion and Mother to Child Care, University of Palermo;Section of Radiology - Department of Biomedicine, Neurosciences and Advanced Diagnostics, University of Palermo;Department of Health Promotion Sciences, Internal Medicine and Excellence Specialties “G. D'Alessandro”, University of Palermo;Infectious Disease Unit, National Relevance Hospital Trust, Azienda Ospedaliera di Rilievo Nazionale e di Alta Specializzazione Civico Di Cristina e Benfratelli;Department of Surgical, and Stomatological Sciences, University of Palermo;Anesthesiology and Pain Department, Fondazione Istituto G. Giglio;Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, University of Catania

关键词: COVID-19;    primary health care;    general practitioners;    severe acute respiratory syndrome;    severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2;    SARS virus;    coronavirus infections;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2020.572042

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

An outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 started in China's Hubei province at the end of 2019 has rapidly become a pandemic. In Italy, a great number of patients was managed in primary care setting and the role of general practitioners and physicians working in the first-aid emergency medical service has become of utmost importance to coordinate the network between the territory and hospitals during the pandemic. Aim of this manuscript is to provide a guidance model for the management of suspected, probable, or confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the primary care setting, from diagnosis to treatment, applying also the recommendations of the Italian Society of General Medicine. Moreover, this multidisciplinary contribution would analyze and synthetize the preventive measures to limit the spread of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the general population as well as the perspective for vaccines.

【 授权许可】

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