Published: 11 May 2024
Author(s): Ciro Canetta, Silvia Accordino, Elisa La Boria, Gianpiero Arosio, Silvia Cacco, Pietro Formagnana, Michela Masotti, Stella Provini, Sonia Passera, Giovanni Viganò, Fabiola Sozzi
Issue: July 2024
Section: Original Article

In the last decades the epidemiological transition has brought to several acute complex (elderly, frail and poli-pathological) patients that access to Emergency Departments (ED) and require hospitalization, an increasingly hard challenge for healthcare systems. This entails prolonged boarding in ED and hospital overcrowding (especially in medical area), with secondary increasing of the bed occupancy rate and the outlying phenomenon [1].

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