Burden of delayed discharge on acute hospital medical wards: A retrospective ecological study in Rome, Italy

• Antonio Vinci ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: antonio.vinci.at@hotmail.it

  Affiliations Hospital Health Management Area, Local Health Authority “ASL Roma 1”, Rome, Italy, Doctoral School of Nursing Sciences and Public Health, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4915-7733

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• Giuseppe Furia,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Hospital Health Management Area, Local Health Authority “ASL Roma 1”, Rome, Italy, Department of Public Health and Infectious Disease, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

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• Vittoria Cammalleri,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health and Infectious Disease, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

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• Vittoria Colamesta,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hospital Health Management Area, Local Health Authority “ASL Roma 1”, Rome, Italy

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• Patrizia Chierchini,

  Roles Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Hospital Health Management Area, Local Health Authority “ASL Roma 1”, Rome, Italy

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• Ornella Corrado,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Software

  Affiliation Hospital Health Management Area, Local Health Authority “ASL Roma 1”, Rome, Italy

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• Assunta Mammarella,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Software

  Affiliation Hospital Health Management Area, Local Health Authority “ASL Roma 1”, Rome, Italy

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• Fabio Ingravalle,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Doctoral School of Nursing Sciences and Public Health, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy, Hospital Health Management Area, Local Health Authority “ASL Roma 6”, Albano Laziale, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6295-9848

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• Dorian Bardhi,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Post-Graduate School of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy

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• Rosa Maria Malerba,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Specialization in Hygiene and Public Health, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

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• Edoardo Carnevale,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Specialization in Hygiene and Public Health, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

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• Susanna Gentili,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Aging Research Center, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7690-2129

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• Gianfranco Damiani,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Sciences and Public Health, Section of Hygiene, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

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• Corrado De Vito,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health and Infectious Disease, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

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• Massimo Maurici

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5884-161X

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