A model based on intensity of medical care may improve outcomes for internal medicine patients in Italy.

BACKGROUND:In medical wards, to guarantee safe, sustainable and effective treatments to heterogeneous and complex patients, care should be graduated into different levels of clinical intensity based on a standardised assessment of acute-illness severity. To support this assumption, we conducted a pr...

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Main Authors: Emanuele Torri, Marta Rigoni, Stefania Dorigoni, Dimitri Peterlana, Susanna Cozzio, Giandomenico Nollo, Walter Spagnolli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211548