An Italian Guidance Model for the Management of Suspected or Confirmed COVID-19 Patients in the Primary Care Setting

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An Italian Guidance Model for the Management of Suspected or Confirmed COVID-19 Patients in the Primary Care Setting

Noemi Lopes Federica Vernuccio Federica Vernuccio Federica Vernuccio Claudio Costantino Claudia Imburgia Cesare Gregoretti Cesare Gregoretti Salvatore Salomone Filippo Drago Giuliano Lo Bianco Giuliano Lo Bianco

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2019-20 coronavirus outbreak Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)Population SARS virus Review severe acute respiratory syndrome Primary care 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology Disease Outbreaks coronavirus infection 03 medical and health sciences coronavirus infections 0302 clinical medicine general practitioners Multidisciplinary approach SARS viru Pandemic Humans Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine education Pandemics education.field_of_study Disease Outbreak business.industry lcsh:Public aspects of medicine Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health COVID-19 Outbreak lcsh:RA1-1270 medicine.disease primary health care Italy general practitioner Practice Guidelines as Topic Public Health Preventive Medicine Medical emergency business Human severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2

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An outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 started in China's Hubei province at the end of 2019 has rapidly become a pandemic. In Italy, a great number of patients was managed in primary care setting and the role of general practitioners and physicians working in the first-aid emergency medical service has become of utmost importance to coordinate the network between the territory and hospitals during the pandemic. Aim of this manuscript is to provide a guidance model for the management of suspected, probable, or confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the primary care setting, from diagnosis to treatment, applying also the recommendations of the Italian Society of General Medicine. Moreover, this multidisciplinary contribution would analyze and synthetize the preventive measures to limit the spread of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the general population as well as the perspective for vaccines.

year	journal	country	edition	language
2020-11-01	Frontiers in Public Health

https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.572042