Italian pulmonologist units and COVID-19 outbreak: "mind the gap"!

Affiliations

¹ Pulmonology and Respiratory Intensive Care Unit, S Donato Hospital, Via Nenni, 20, 52100, Arezzo, Italy. raffaele_scala@hotmail.com.
² Respiratory and Critical Care Unit Cardio-thoracic and Vascular Department Careggi Teaching Hospital, Florence, Italy.
³ Pneumologic Center "Misericordia", Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy.
⁴ Italian Thoracic Society/Italian Association of Hospital Pulmonologists (ITS/AIPO), Florence, Italy.

Raffaele Scala et al. Crit Care. 2020.

. 2020 Jun 29;24(1):381.

doi: 10.1186/s13054-020-03087-y.

¹ Pulmonology and Respiratory Intensive Care Unit, S Donato Hospital, Via Nenni, 20, 52100, Arezzo, Italy. raffaele_scala@hotmail.com.
² Respiratory and Critical Care Unit Cardio-thoracic and Vascular Department Careggi Teaching Hospital, Florence, Italy.
³ Pneumologic Center "Misericordia", Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy.
⁴ Italian Thoracic Society/Italian Association of Hospital Pulmonologists (ITS/AIPO), Florence, Italy.

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