COVID-19 and primary care in Italy: one year later

Silvia Bressy; Enrico Maria Zingarelli

doi:10.1071/HC21108

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COVID-19 and primary care in Italy: one year later

Silvia Bressy

¹ ^* , Enrico Maria Zingarelli ²

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¹ Department of Primary Care, ASLTO5, Via Dante 7, 10022 Carmagnola, Italy.

² Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, SS. Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo Hospital, Alessandria, Italy.

^* Correspondence to: silviabressy@gmail.com

Handling Editor: Felicity Goodyear-Smith

Journal of Primary Health Care 14(2) 96-98 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC21108
Published: 10 June 2022

© 2022 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY).

Keywords: coronavirus outbreak, COVID-19, family physician, general practice, home care assistance, Italian national health system, pandemic management, primary care.

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