title: [Reorganize hospitals to improve efficiency and quality].
abstract: The current economic difficulties and the changed epidemiological picture, characterized by an increase in life expectancy, which shows in the elderly, chronically ill and disabled the main, both health and social, care needs,r equires a remark on the hospital network and organization. Today, most of the application assistance is usually at low intensity of care, whereas the acute event is shrinking. The prevalence of hospital admissions concern the elderly, who get into acute events but on a substrate of chronicity and co-morbidity conditions. There must be a new model of hospital network, with the possibility of converting some hospital centres for medium intensity care and selecting few centres for high intensity care, where concentrating the more expensive technology and the skill and expertise of the professional. The -suggestion is a renewed health planning that detects:- hospitals for widespread disease, equipped with emergency war for minor codes-hospital at high intensity of care for emergency-urgency- hospital for particular fields of medical speciality and research.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Macchi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pavan
mesh_terms: D057172:Economic Recession; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational / Q000592:standards*; D006754:Hospital Restructuring / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D058996:Quality Improvement / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards