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cord-034952-hctfmjhv	D'Avanzo, Barbara	What changed in the Italian internal medicine and geriatric wards during the lockdown	2020-11-07		.txt	text/plain	973	47	55	With this background, a total of 48 internal medicine or geriatric wards among the 93 adhering to the register REPOSI [1] answered an online questionnaire aimed to investigate the characteristics and activities of converted and non-converted wards in the crucial period of the first wave of the epidemic, 22 February-4 May 2020. Rules and prescribed procedures implemented for ward conversions were fulfilled and personal protection devices for patients and professionals made available, even though they were judged fully adequate in only 40% of the CWs and 14% of the NCWS. Follow-up of patients discharged from hospital was initiated in 11 (55%) CWs and in 10 (36%) NCWs. The country distribution of the converted wards mirrors that of the pandemic and witnesses the efforts made in Italy by the internists [3] to guarantee appropriate care for those infected. Unfortunately, we collected no information on the number of patients transferred from internal medicine and geriatric ward to intensive care units.	./cache/cord-034952-hctfmjhv.txt	./txt/cord-034952-hctfmjhv.txt