Estimating the burden and cost of infectious intestinal disease in the Maltese community

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 135, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1290-1298

  Gauci, Charmaine ^a   Gilles, H ^b   O'Brien, S ^c   Mamo, J ^d   Stabile, I ^d   Ruggeri, F M ^e   Calleja, N ^f   Spiteri, G ^a  

^a Disease Surveillance Unit   (Malta)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MALTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Malta)

^e ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^f Medical Statistics   (Malta)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIDIARRHEAL AGENT; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; CHAMOMILE; DIGESTIVE TRACT SPASMOLYTIC AGENT; GREEN TEA EXTRACT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER BURDEN; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG COST; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; INTESTINE INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALTA; ORAL REHYDRATION THERAPY; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TELEPHONE; UNEMPLOYMENT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COST; ECONOMICS; ENTEROPATHY; INTERVIEW;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COST OF ILLNESS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; INTESTINAL DISEASES; MALTA; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 38449091384     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268807008084     Document Type: Article

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