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COVID-19 outbreak and impact on mental health and psychiatric services
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The spread of COVID-19 is having such an impact on the Italian Regional Health System (IRHS) that it had to drastically restructure in a matter of days. (...)
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Fraticelli, C., Alamia, A., & Guanella, E. (2020). COVID-19 outbreak and impact on mental health and psychiatric services. Emergency Care Journal, 16(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/ecj.2020.9040
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