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. 2020 Dec 1;28(4):539-544.

Discharge ward during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: an effective way to increase patient turnover when human resources are scarce

Filippo Castelnuovo  1 , Valentina Marchese  2 , Graziella Cristini  1 , Verena Crosato  1 , Francesca Pennati  1 , Giulia Renisi  1 , Ilaria Izzo  1 , Giuseppe Paraninfo  1 , Evelyn Van Hauwermeiren  1 , Francesco Castelli  1
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Discharge ward during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: an effective way to increase patient turnover when human resources are scarce

Filippo Castelnuovo et al. Infez Med. .
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Abstract

During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the province of Brescia (Italy) had a significant number of COVID-19 cases, which led to a subversion of the ordinary structure of the university hospital ASST Spedali Civili, driven by the need to hospitalize as many patients as possible in a narrow period of time. At the peak of the epidemic, a rapid hospitalization discharge area, the Discharge Ward (DW), was set up with the aim of facilitating the rapid turnover of patients in the wards where the most severe patients had to be hospitalized. The organization and activities carried out are described in the results of this reproducible experience during epidemic events.

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