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ArticleApplied health economics and health policy2020

The Italian NHS: What Lessons to Draw from COVID-19?

Livio Garattini, Michele Zanetti, Nicholas Freemantle

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Article in Applied health economics and health policy, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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  10. General practice in the EU: countries you see, customs you find.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2023
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  13. The Italian NHS at regional level: same in theory, different in practice.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2022
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  14. The Italian NHS in Lombardy and Veneto: near but far.Internal and emergency medicine · 2021
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  15. Comment on: "The Italian NHS: What Lessons to Draw from COVID-19?"Applied health economics and health policy · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Livio GarattiniCentre for Health Economics, Institute for Pharmacological Research Mario Negri IRCCS, Via GB Camozzi 3, 24020, Ranica, BG, Italy. lgarattini@marionegri.it.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8952-9968
Michele ZanettiCentre for Health Economics, Institute for Pharmacological Research Mario Negri IRCCS, Via GB Camozzi 3, 24020, Ranica, BG, Italy.
Nicholas FreemantleInstitute of Clinical Trials and Methodology, University College London, London, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

National Health ProgramsPandemicsBetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Emergency Medical ServicesForecastingHumansIntensive Care UnitsItalyPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32451979
PMCPMC7247917

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