Diarrhea and colds in child day care centers impact of various numerator and denominator definitions of illness episodes

Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 796-799

  Tarqfder, Mushfiqur R ^a   Carabin, Hélène ^a   Gyorkos, Theresa W ^b   Joseph, Lawrence ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHILD; COMMON COLD; DATA ANALYSIS; DAY CARE; DIARRHEA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

CHILD DAY CARE CENTERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; COMMON COLD; DIARRHEA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUEBEC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 74549142898     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e3181ba468e     Document Type: Article

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