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Characteristics of COVID-19 patients dying in Italy

Soon after the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic hit Italy in February 2020, the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) established an ad hoc integrated (microbiological and epidemiological) surveillance system.

 

Mortality data are traditionally collected and processed by the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) through its death certificates. In addition, considering the exceptional circumstances of the pandemic and the resulting state of emergency, and in line with the Ministry of Health circular 0007922 of 09/03/2020, the ISS started collecting and reviewing samples of medical records obtained from the Regions in order to assess the main characteristics of COVID-19 deaths.

 

The data were presented in periodic reports entitled “Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 patients dying in Italy”, published (at first almost daily, and then weekly, fortnightly and monthly) in Italian and English, alongside a summary infographic, on this page of the EpiCentro-ISS website of the integrated surveillance.

 

Since the state of emergency was lifted, on 30 March 2022, clinical facilities have stopped providing their medical records and death certificates (although all of them continue to be processed by ISTAT). As a result, the in-depth reports describing the characteristics of COVID-19 deaths are no longer being published. 

 

Search the “Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 patients dying in Italy” report archive.

 

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Page last reviewed: 5 January 2023

This report was produced by COVID-19 Surveillance Group: Luigi Palmieri, Elvira Agazio, Xanthi Andrianou, Pierfrancesco Barbariol, Antonino Bella, Eva Benelli, Luigi Bertinato, Matilde Bocci, Stefano Boros, Giovanni Calcagnini, Marco Canevelli, Federica Censi, Alessandra Ciervo, Elisa Colaizzo, Martina Del Manso, Corrado Di Benedetto, Chiara Donfrancesco, Massimo Fabiani, Francesco Facchiano, Marco Floridia, Fabio Galati, Marina Giuliano, Tiziana Grisetti, Cecilia Guastadisegni, Yllka Kodra, Ilaria Lega, Cinzia Lo Noce, Pietro Maiozzi, Valerio Manno, Margherita Martini, Alberto Mateo Urdiales, Eugenio Mattei, Claudia Meduri, Paola Meli, Giada Minelli, Lorenza Nisticò, Graziano Onder, Lucia Palmisano, Daniele Petrone, Patrizio Pezzotti, Flavia Pricci, Ornella Punzo, Vincenzo Puro, Federica Quarata, Valeria Raparelli, Flavia Riccardo, Simone Rocchetto, Paolo Salerno, Giulia Sarti, Debora Serra, Matteo Spuri, Paola Stefanelli, Marco Tallon, Manuela Tamburo De Bella, Dorina Tiple, Marco Toccaceli Blasi, Federica Trentin, Brigid Unim, Luana Vaianella, Nicola Vanacore, Maria Fenicia Vescio, Emanuele Rocco Villani, Silvio Brusaferro.