A Community-Based Model to the COVID-19 Humanitarian Crisis

Mirco Nacoti; Mirco Nacoti; Andrea Ciocca; Pietro Brambillasca; Francesco Fazzi; Michele Pisano; Massimo Giupponi; Antonio Pesenti; Antonio Pesenti; Oliviero Valoti; Maurizio Cereda

doi:10.3389/fcimb.2021.639579

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology (Mar 2021)

A Community-Based Model to the COVID-19 Humanitarian Crisis

Mirco Nacoti,
Mirco Nacoti,
Andrea Ciocca,
Pietro Brambillasca,
Francesco Fazzi,
Michele Pisano,
Massimo Giupponi,
Antonio Pesenti,
Antonio Pesenti,
Oliviero Valoti,
Maurizio Cereda

Affiliations

Mirco Nacoti: Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy
Mirco Nacoti: Coordination, Comunità della Salute, Bergamo, Italy
Andrea Ciocca: Coordination, Comunità della Salute, Bergamo, Italy
Pietro Brambillasca: Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy
Francesco Fazzi: Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy
Michele Pisano: 1st General Surgery Unit, Department of Emergency, ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy
Massimo Giupponi: Executive Board, Agenzia di Tutela della Salute, Bergamo, Italy
Antonio Pesenti: Department of Emergency, Anesthesia and Critical Care, Foundation IRCCS Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
Antonio Pesenti: Department of Surgical Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Oliviero Valoti: Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy
Maurizio Cereda: Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2021.639579
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11

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A multidisciplinary group, mainly from Bergamo region - the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis in Italy on march 2020– has developed concept of creating intermediate care facilities and proposes a three-tier model of community-based care, with the goal of reducing hospital admissions, contagion and mortality related to hospital overloading and optimizing human resources.

Published in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

ISSN: 2235-2988 (Online)
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Science: Microbiology
Website: http://www.frontiersin.org/Cellular-and-Infection-Microbiology

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