Journal article
Hospital ambulatory medicine: A leading strategy for Internal Medicine in Europe.
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Corbella X
Department of Internal Medicine, Bellvitge University Hospital-IDIBELL, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address: xcorbella@uic.es.
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Barreto V
Medicine Department/Internal Medicine Service, Hospital Pedro Hispano, Matosinhos Local Health Unit, Matosinhos, Portugal.
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Bassetti S
Division of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
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Bivol M
Medical Division, Akershus University Hospital, Lorenskog, Norway.
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Castellino P
Department of Medicine, Università di Catania, Catania, Italy.
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de Kruijf EJ
Department of Internal Medicine, Gelderse Vallei Hospital, Ede, The Netherlands.
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Dentali F
Dipartimento Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, Università dell'Insubria, Varese, Italy.
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Durusu-Tanriöver M
Department of General Internal Medicine, Hacettepe University Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
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Fierbinţeanu-Braticevici C
Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital Bucharest, "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania.
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Hanslik T
Service de Médecine Interne, Hôpital Ambroise Paré, Paris, France.
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Hojs R
Clinic for Internal Medicine, University Medical Centre Maribor, University of Maribor, Faculty of Medicine, Maribor, Slovenia.
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Kiňová S
Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.
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Lazebnik L
The Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, Moscow, Russian Federation.
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Livčāne E
Centre of TB and Lung Diseases, Riga East Clinical University Hospital, Riga, Latvia.
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Raspe M
Department of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Respiratory Medicine, Charité - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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Campos L
Internal Medicine Department, Hospital São Francisco Xavier, Lisboa, Portugal.
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- European journal of internal medicine. - 2018
English
Addressing the current collision course between growing healthcare demands, rising costs and limited resources is an extremely complex challenge for most healthcare systems worldwide. Given the consensus that this critical reality is unsustainable from staff, consumer, and financial perspectives, our aim was to describe the official position and approach of the Working Group on Professional Issues and Quality of Care of the European Federation of Internal Medicine (EFIM), for encouraging internists to lead a thorough reengineering of hospital operational procedures by the implementation of innovative hospital ambulatory care strategies. Among these, we include outpatient and ambulatory care strategies, quick diagnostic units, hospital-at-home, observation units and daycare hospitals. Moving from traditional 'bed-based' inpatient care to hospital ambulatory medicine may optimize patient flow, relieve pressure on hospital bed availability by avoiding hospital admissions and shortening unnecessary hospital stays, reduce hospital-acquired complications, increase the capacity of hospitals with minor structural investments, increase efficiency, and offer patients a broader, more appropriate and more satisfactory spectrum of delivery options.
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https://sonar.ch/global/documents/90572
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