Burden of acute otitis media in primary care pediatrics in Italy: A secondary data analysis from the Pedianet database

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Marchisio, Paola ^a   Cantarutti, Luigi ^b   Sturkenboom, Miriam ^c,d   Girotto, Silvia ^b   Picelli, Gino ^d   Dona, Daniele ^e   Scamarcia, Antonio ^f   Villa, Marco ^g   Giaquinto, Carlo ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b Family Pediatrician   (Italy)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d International Pharmacoepidemiology   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^f Pedianet Società Servizi Telematici SRL   (Italy)

^g Local Health Unit of Cremona   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute otitis media; Incidence; Primary care pediatrics

Indexed keywords

ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; OTOSCOPE; PEDIATRICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST OF ILLNESS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; ITALY; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OTITIS MEDIA; OTOSCOPY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84870066328     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-12-185     Document Type: Article

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