Implementation of a centralized discharge planning office during the COVID-19 pandemic: translating the experience from the emergency to routine clinical practice.

Unlabelled: Background and aim During the COVID-19 emergency, the lombardy region (northern Italy) implemented a regional Centralized Discharge Planning Office (CDPO) to promptly manage the discharge requests, rapidly match the needs of discharge hospitals with the availability of admission facilities and ensure the management of the entire discharge process. To improve the discharge process in routine clinical practice, maintaining the role of the CDPO could be of great interest. This paper describes the experience of the CDPO during the COVID-19 pandemic and discusses the possibility to translate this operational model to routine clinical practice.