SARS-COV-2 pandemic: establishing three risk levels for 19 Italian regions and two autonomous provinces

• Published in: European journal of hospital pharmacy. Science and practice 2022-05, Vol.29 (3), p.e3-e3
• Main Authors: Messori, Andrea, Angileri, Manuela, Chiumente, Marco, Agnoletto, Laura, Baldo, Paolo, Bartoli, Laura, Cirino, Mario, Damuzzo, Vera, Ferracane, Elisa, Giron, M Cecilia, Laudisio, Carolina, Mengato, Daniele, Palozzo, Angelo Claudio, Trippoli, Sabrina
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Cancer; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; health care economics and organisations; health services administration; Humans; Intensive care; Italy - epidemiology; Oncology; organisation and administration; Pandemics; PostScript; Provinces; public health; SARS-CoV-2; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
• ISSN: 2047-9956; 2047-9964
• DOI: 10.1136/ejhpharm-2021-002692

In November 2020, a number of health care professionals began a collaboration (based on a Facebook group named PIFO including 446 people) specifically aimed at discussing topics and controversies in the field of COVID-19.1 A total of 34 professionals participated in the experience described herein: 14 of these were invited to share their views through an ad hoc questionnaire. Three main parameters were identified in our survey: (1) replicability index; (2) incidence of new cases over 14 days (normalised to 100 000 people); and (3) percentage of intensive care unit (ICU) beds occupied by COVID-19 patients. Table 1 Description of the algorithm that converts three parameters included in the national COVID monitoring framework into the risk levels associated with the three pre-determined colours (green/yellow, orange, and red) Replicability index* (or Rt according to the Italian notation) Initial colour assignment† Additional parameters* Process of colour assignment revision Final colour assignment† Number of new cases over 14 days normalised to 100 000 subjects Percentage of ICU beds occupied by COVID-19 patients >1.20 red ininfluent – ininfluent n.a. red between 1.00 and 1.20 orange >400 and/or >30% yes red ≤400 and ≤30% no orange 400 and/or >30% yes orange ≤400 and ≤30% no green/yellow *The official information on these indexes recorded on a daily basis is available at the following internet addresses: https://github.com/pcm-dpc/COVID-19/tree/master/dati-andamento-nazionale (nationwide information) https://github.com/pcm-dpc/COVID-19/tree/master/dati-regioni (region-specific data) https://github.com/pcm-dpc/COVID-19/tree/master/dati-province (data for individual provinces). †According to the present algorithm.