The efficiency in the ordinary hospital bed management in Italy: an in-depth analysis of intensive care unit in the areas affected by COVID-19 before the outbreak

Fabrizio Pecoraro; Fabrizio Clemente; Daniela Luzi

In this paragraph data collected in the years 2010 and 2017 are compared to capture difference in terms of beds availability, number of hospitalizations and total number of inpatient days. A highlighted in Table 1 , an important reduction of the hospital beds is evident all over the Italian regions. This reduction on the same time matches with a reduction of both number of patients hospitalized and number of days spent in the hospital. Differences across the country can be highlighted with the highest reductions in the southern regions. Considering the northern region heavily affected by the COVID-19, the reduction ranges from -5% in Bolzano and Val d'Aosta to -23% in Trento, while Lombardy cuts around the 7% of hospital beds. . CC-BY-ND 4.0 International license It is made available under a author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.