Tailored Post-Acute Care Coordination for Survivors of Moderate to Severe COVID-19 Infection

The severe acute respiratory COVID-19 pandemic has raised issues about its acute and chronic management.1 In particular for patients requiring respiratory support due to severe hypoxic acute respiratory failure,2,3 and presented with critical symptoms with persistence of radiologic, clinical, and functional symptoms.4 Thus, they need tailored follow-up during the so-called chronic or long-phase of the infection.5 The common intention is to prospectively perpetuate a coordinated patient's continuity in the care-line helpful for clinic and research purposes focused to reduce unnecessary hospitalizations, to avoid unmotivated specialist follow-up, to promote multidisciplinary approach, and most of all to confirm the patient centrality in the health care system.