Community Emergency Medicine: the right care, at the right time, in the right place

Published: 27 June 2022
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Dear Editors,

The deep, ongoing crisis of Emergency Medicine (EM) is, sadly, a well-recognised problem of the Italian National Health Care System.

As beautifully outlined in the editorial by Coen et al.,1 the systematic disruption of Public Health Care, with progressively more significant cuts to the number of hospital beds and to primary care and community services has irreversibly changed the quality of care we can provide to our patients. [...]

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Coen D, Casagranda I, Cavazza M, et al. Facing the Emergency Department crisis in Italy, Emerg Care J 2021;17:10331. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4081/ecj.2021.10331
Poggiali E, Barbieri G, Salvatore V, Salinaro F. The Emergency Rooms and Emergency Medicine should not be the answer to the weakness of the Italian National Health System, Emerg Care J 2021;17:10304. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4081/ecj.2021.10304
Borio G. The crisis of the Italian emergency medicine and specialty: the point of view of COSMEU. Emerg Care J 2022;18:10385. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4081/ecj.2022.10385
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Physician Response Unit (PSU). Accessed: 01/05/2022. Available from: https://www.londonsairambulance.org.uk/pru
Carden R, Leaning B, Joy T, PRU Physician Response Unit. Delivering Community Emergency Medicine during the COVID-19 pandemic: the Physician Response Unit. Emerg Med J 2021;38:371-2. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2020-210112

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Sorlini, C. (2022). Community Emergency Medicine: the right care, at the right time, in the right place. Emergency Care Journal, 18(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/ecj.2022.10595