Follow up

This Hospital has a follow up service for patients whose pathologies don’t end with discharge/specialized examination, but require a subsequent taking charge.

This continuity is planned for all pathologies that need outpatient examinations following the first or discharge of admitted patient, in order to furnish proof of successful resolution of clinical problem.

At the end of admission or outpatient service a letter of discharge or clinical summary is drafted, addressed to the general practitioner where are indicated the tests to perform with timing and next follow up examinations to perform at the Hospital. These services are generally already scheduled during the discharge or first examination. Possible tests, between one examination and another, if must be performed at our Center and need booking, are even scheduled during the same examination, while in a different case (tests performed at other centers of which we must view the report on the next examination) they are indicated in the letter addressed to the general practitioner.

Sometimes the follow up patients need treatments with drugs not registered in Italy, in that case is followed a specific procedure for the delivery of these drugs (free of charge with compilation of File F) from Hospital Pharmacy and a treatment on same day under prolonged oupatient observation for a few hours to monitor possible side effects.

Taking charge of patient and relatives

In this Hospital there is an organization that offers patients a taking charge service in different care settings (inpatient and outpatient).

In outpatient setting the booking of check examinations and services is scheduled at the end of examination/service by the specialist who activated the taking charge of patient as required by the Hospital organization.

This action is accompanied by the prescription of authorizations carried out by the same specialist.

In the admission setting, both in preadmission phase of surgery stays and in discharge phase, where indicated, the protected discharge is activated. For this reason there is a specific procedure managing the continuity of care between the Hospital and the territory.

In the rehabilitation concerning the severe brain and medullary lesions there is an integrated management – set off by a protocol – between hospital for acutes, intensive hospital rehabilitation and intensive out-of-hospital rehabilitation. The rehabilitation component strengthens the concept of taking charge thanks also to a departmental organization strengthening the synergy Hospital-territory by allowing a better management of patients in different care settings.