title: [From the analysis of the inadequacies of a 200-bed zonal hospital to an alternative proposal of a single general hospital to be used by the whole territory].
abstract: The adequacy of the hospital to meet patients' needs was analysed on the basis of patients admitted to the Medicine Division over a 6 month period. Critical discussion of the numerous deficiencies encountered shows: 1) that the small zonal hospital of 200 beds is inadequate to perform the tasks and function of modern medicine; 2) that, more generally, the hierarchical distinction still ruling in regional, provincial and zonal hospitals is anachronistic. The proposal for a single General Hospital for acute patients (available for the whole territory) is put forward and the relations of this new unit with out-patient structures are defined.
mesh_terms: D006285:Health Planning; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006742:Hospital Bed Capacity; D006752:Hospital Planning; D006769:Hospitals, General; D007558:Italy
vernacular_title: Dall'analisi delle insufficienze di un ospedale zonale di 200 letti ad una proposta alternativa di ospedale generale unico con bacino di utenza comprensoriale.