Epidemiologic features
Epidemiologic Features of Kawasaki Disease in Taiwan, 2003–2006
... METHODS. Using Taiwan’s 2003–2006 national health insurance claims, we investigated the epidemiologic features of Kawasaki disease (ICD-9-CM code 446.1) and coronary artery aneurysm formation (International ...
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Epidemiologic Features of Kawasaki Disease in Taiwan, 1996–2002
... Methods. Since the implementation of Taiwan’s Na- tional Health Insurance (NHI) in 1995, NHI has covered health care for >96% its population. Using the NHI da- tabase from 1996 to 2002, we investigated ...
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Bacteremia Caused by Acinetobacter baumannii: Epidemiologic Features, Antimicrobial Susceptibility, and Outcomes
... Our hospital has coped with multidrug resistant A. baumannii over several years [7] [8]. We have described intervention strategies that are necessary to manage patients infected and/or colonized with such bacteria [5]. ...
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Scrub typhus in Jiangsu Province, China: epidemiologic features and spatial risk analysis
... Maxent was applied accordingly with the following changes in model run. 75% were selected at random to construct the model, while the remaining were used for validation. Regularization multiplier was set to 1. The ...
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Epidemiologic Features of the Presentation of Critical Congenital Heart Disease: Implications for Screening
... These features have been generally accepted as identifying a high-risk group in clinical practice at the study institution, al- though no study has associated this case definition with adverse ...
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Epidemiologic Features of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Belgian Children: Passive Surveillance Is Not Enough
... We wanted to assess the real burden of IPD in children ⬍ 5 years of age in Bel- gium, compared with the existing national laboratory- based surveillance data, to calculate the theoretica[r] ...
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Epidemiologic Features of Antipsychotic Prescribing to Children and Adolescents in Primary Care in the United Kingdom
... This study provides descriptive analyses of the prescribing trends for antipsychotic med- ications to children and adolescents in United Kingdom primary care including the prescribing tr[r] ...
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Incidence and Descriptive Epidemiologic Features of Traumatic Brain Injury in King County, Washington
... For the larger CHAI study, all children admitted to the hospital with TBIs and their parents, as well as an age- and gender-stratified random sample of children seen in an ED for a TBI but not admitted, were approached as ...
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Diagnostic and Epidemiologic Features of Hepatitis C among Hemodialysis Patients Living in Yazd Province of Iran
... Detection of hepatitis C virus in patients with terminal renal disease undergoing dialysis in southern Brazil: prevalence, risk factors, genotypes, and viral load dynam[r] ...
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Epidemiologic Features of Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease and Herpangina Caused by Enterovirus 71 in Taiwan, 1998–2005
... Annual fatality rates were calculated by dividing the number of deaths that resulted from severe cases of HFMD/herpan- gina for children who were younger than 15 years by the number of s[r] ...
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Latex agglutination negative methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus recovered from neonates: epidemiologic features and comparison of typing methods
... Plasmid pattern analysis of 30 MRSA strains recovered from adult patients in the same hospital revealed the presence of multiple plasmids, none of which resembled the pattern found in th[r] ...
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Clinical, Laboratory, and Epidemiologic Features of a Viral Gastroenteritis in Infants and Children
... We studied 27 infants admitted to the hospital with acute diarrhea caused by human rotavirus (HRV) and obtained additional data on fecal excretion from ten outpa- tients with the same in[r] ...
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Epidemiologic features of overseas imported malaria in the People's Republic of China
... Demographic data, Plasmodium species profiles, spa- tiotemporal distribution of cases, case detection and clinical features, as well as preventive measures and exposure histories during travel abroad were ...
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Amebic Liver Abscess in Children: Clinical and Epidemiologic Features
... L.R. 1619-96-4), a 3’/2-month-old Mexican-Amer- ican boy was transferred to Arizona Health Sciences Center (AHSC) with a two-month history of intermittent bloody stools and one day ofile[r] ...
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Epidemiologic Features of the Physical and Sexual Maltreatment of Children in the Carolinas
... The overall rates of harsh physical disci- pline were not statistically different, although 33% of substantiated cases of maltreatment in South Caro- lina were attributed to physical abu[r] ...
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Poison Prevention Education
... Based on the epidemiologic features of poisoning episodes and the actions that would be appropriate for parents to take, the basic objectives in poison prevention education are to decrea[r] ...
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Epidemiology and clinical presentation of the four human parainfluenza virus types
... The aims of this study were to explore the epidemiologic features and clinical manifestations of HPIVs and other common respiratory pathogens in children and adults with acute respirator[r] ...
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Importance of Catch-up Vaccination: Experience From a Varicella Outbreak, Maine, 2002–2003
... the epidemiologic features of the outbreak, assess vaccine coverage among school- aged children, compare disease presentation among vaccinated and unvaccinated students, evaluate vac- cine effectiveness, ...
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Principles of cartographic differentiation and epidemiologic zoning of ntural plague foci applied to assess and minimize population health risks
... Differentiation rules for enzootic territo- ries are clearly regulated and it provides a significant advantage as this differentiation is greatly suitable for application for natural foci registration based on GIS ...
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Validation of genotype cluster investigations for Mycobacterium tuberculosis: application results for 44 clusters from four heterogeneous United States jurisdictions
... Among 388 study patients having contact investigation (CI) records available, CI record review (Step 2) found 15 (3.9 %) linked patients. Patients without CI records (n = 63, 16.2 %) were associated with having only ...
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