Open AccessCOMMENT ON: Hospital care in Departments defined as COVID-free: A proposal for a safe hospitalization protecting healthcare professionals and patients not affected by COVID-19
Author(s) -
Alessandro Tafuri,
Andrea Minervini,
Antonio Celia,
Luca Cindolo,
Riccardo Schiavina,
Bernardo Rocco,
Angelo Porreca,
Alessandro Antonelli
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
archivio italiano di urologia andrologia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.429
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 2282-4197
pISSN - 1124-3562
DOI - 10.4081/aiua.2020.2.80
Subject(s) - covid-19 , health care , everyday life , medical emergency , health professionals , medicine , set (abstract data type) , nursing , psychology , outbreak , computer science , disease , political science , virology , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law , programming language
The COVID-19 outbreak dramatically changed hospital everyday life, impairing the course of previous routine activity, also in urology. In the next months, together with keeping the focus on the prevention of contagion recrudescence, the health care system will face another stringent issue, i.e. to restore all the services not COVID-related. Leonardi et al. in their paper report an equilibrate overview on the incoming “Phase 2”, in order to set up so-called COVID-free hospitals and departments. The authors offer an insight from a practical point of view, detailing protocols for any of the steps of the path of care, from the outpatient visit to surgery