Executive summary Since 2018, this Lancet Commission has sought to understand how to
maximise synergies between the global health agendas of universal health coverage, health …

Excess mortality studies provide crucial information regarding the health burden of
pandemics and other large-scale events. Here, we use time series approaches to separate …

Autopsy examination, the gold standard for defining causes of death, is often difficult to apply
in certain health care settings, especially in develo** countries. The COVID-19 pandemic …

In this research article, we introduced an algorithm to evaluate COVID-19 patients admission
in hospitals at source shortage period. Many researchers have expressed their conclusions …

Excess mortality studies provide crucial information regarding the health burden of
pandemics and other large-scale events. Here, we used time series approaches to separate …

Background International healthcare systems face the challenge that waiting times may
create barriers to accessing medical care, and that those barriers are unequally distributed …

Background: The identification of risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 infection and mortality in
patients with dementia is a key aspect to support clinical decisions and public health …

Introduction Italy was the first European country affected by COVID-19. Thanks to
governmental containment measures (9 March 2020), the spread of COVID-19 was limited …

Objectives: To describe the monthly distribution of COVID-19 hospitalisations, deaths and
case-fatality rates (CFR) in Lombardy (Italy) throughout 2020. Methods: We analysed de …

(1) Background: Italy accounts for more than 150,000 deaths due to the COVID-19
pandemic, leading the top rank in SARS-CoV-2-caused deceases in Europe. A survey on …