A Faustini

..Hospitalization does not necessarily indicate COPD severity, COPD as a principal diagnosis confirmed with medicine prescription more likely represented true cases. Misclassification affects asthma cases to greater extent than COPD cases...

..The aim of this report is to determine risk factors for MDR-TB in Europe...

..80, P=0.05), high educational level (OR 3.8, P=0.03). Having a maid from a high-prevalence country was independently associated (OR 2.3) although not statistically significant. This is the only exposure that changed during the Jubilee...

..To identify the risk factors of an outbreak of meningitis associated with echovirus 30-infection that occurred in Rome, Italy, in late 1997 among children from two different schools...

..To estimate case fatality rates (CFR) of bacterial meningitis and analyze factors associated with mortality due to bacterial meningitis in the Italian region of Lazio...

....

..The aim of this study was to enhance tuberculosis (TB) treatment outcome monitoring by linking diverse surveillance systems and estimating treatment outcomes including relapse...

..Using in-hospital 30-day mortality provides a significantly different estimate of the role of specific risk factors...

..to estimate mortality due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), risk of dying from COPD without hospital admission and mortality within 30 days after hospital admission for COPD in an Italian region...

..to estimate the prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) by integrating various administrative health information systems...

..This paper aims to estimate the prevalence of HCV infection, and the hepatic and extrahepatic sequelae in at-risk groups, using routinely collected data in the Lazio region, Italy...

..Females and chronic disease sufferers were more likely to die of a respiratory disease caused by air pollution than males and healthy people...

..To describe an outbreak of hepatitis C virus (HCV)...

..The unexplained heterogeneity between the studies for unsuccessful outcomes seems to be due to differing interpretations given to World Health Organization definitions...

..Epidemiological methods possibly are not adequate to investigate smaller foodborne outbreaks...

..In order to improve both sensitivity and positive predictive value of surveillance, hospital and public health sources should be integrated with laboratory-based system...

..0, 95% CI = 1.9--4.8 for high responders). Simultaneous administration of DT vaccine was associated with lower titres (OR = 0.4, 95% CI = 0.2-0.8 for medium responders and OR = 0.3, 95% CI = 0.1--0.7 for high responders)...

..The hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccination was introduced in Italy in 1991 as compulsory among newborns and among 11-year-old children...

..To evaluate the burden of hospitalised pneumonia in adults in the Lazio region (1997-1999); to describe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), suspected nosocomial infection (NI) and AIDS-related pneumonia...

..Although these results do not detect mechanisms related to worse outcomes, they may be useful to stimulate providers to revision and improvement of COPD care management...

....

..In the multivariate analysis, invasive therapeutic procedures, pathological conditions and formula feeding were associated with NEC. Although no predominant common bacteria were isolated, we suggest an infective origin of this outbreak...

..More thorough information about risks, exposures and vehicles of food borne diseases can be obtained from epidemiological field investigations than from infectious disease reports or laboratory data...

..Acute effects of ozone on mortality have been extensively documented in clinical and epidemiological research. However, only a few studies have focused on subgroups of the population especially vulnerable to these effects...

..The association between particulate matter (PM10) and gases (NO2 and O3) and hospital admissions for cardiac, cerebrovascular, respiratory conditions, pulmonary embolism and diabetes has been evaluated...

....

..The project was designed to provide methods and criteria for epidemiological surveillance of the health effects of air pollution in large Italian cities...

..The reliability of information sources, as well as the precision of coverage indicators are open questions for immunisation coverage surveys...

....

..Data from the hospital discharge registers can be used to give a cheap and rapid glimpse to the epidemiology of pathologies frequently requiring hospitalisation neglected from more analytical surveillance systems or registries...

..Little is known about the short-term effects of ultrafine particles...

..Differences may be partially due to a selective lower sensitivity in reporting deceased cases, but the most important factor seems to be the case definition used in follow-up study and other sources of data...

..24) than with 21 (beta= 0.05). CONCLUSION: For this small network, determining the samples' size according to heterogeneity hypothesis strengthens the statement that water is drinkable compared with homogeneity assumption...