The Italian hub-and-spoke network for the emergency neurology management.
Giuseppe MicieliPietro CortelliMassimo Del SetteAnna CavalliniCarla ZanferrariArturo De FalcoRocco QuatraleGuarino MariaGiovanni CossuShalom HaggiagFrancesca Romana PezzellaMaria Luisa ZeddeFederico Reanull nullPublished in: Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (2023)
The identification of hub and spoke hospitals is strongly characterized by the presence of beds and instrumentation mainly dedicated to acute cerebrovascular pathologies. Moreover, the similarity in the number and type of accesses between hub and spoke hospitals suggests the need to look for adequate identification of all the neurological pathologies requiring urgent treatment.