Quality of life in a cohort of patients diagnosed with renal failure in childhood and who received renal transplantAlberto E Tozzi
Epidemiology Unit, Bambino Gesu Hospital, Rome, Italy
Pediatr Transplant 16:840-5. 2012
..4, and the average MCS score was 73.9. The mean GHQ total score was 14.8, and the total scale MSPSS mean score was 70. Severe comorbidities significantly affected the PCS score. Individuals with severe comorbidities had lower PCS scores...
Use of the internet by Italian pediatricians: habits, impact on clinical practice and expectationsMariateresa Romano
Bambino Gesu Children s Hospital, Piazza Sant Onofrio 4, Rome, Italy
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 12:23. 2012
..We administered a questionnaire to members of the Italian Society of Pediatrics to assess determinants of their use of the Internet, of social platforms and of personal health records during clinical practice...
- Surfing the web during pandemic flu: availability of World Health Organization recommendations on prevention
Francesco Gesualdo
Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesu, Rome, Italy
BMC Public Health 10:561. 2010
..People often search for information on influenza A(H1N1)v prevention on the web. The extent to which information found on the Internet is consistent with recommendations issued by the World Health Organization is unknown...
- Attitudes towards HPV immunization of Italian mothers of adolescent girls and potential role of health professionals in the immunization program
Alberto E Tozzi
Bambino Gesu Hospital, Rome, Italy
Vaccine 27:2625-9. 2009
..Pediatricians most frequently provided information on HPV vaccine (31%), and were perceived as the preferred immunization providers (77%). Acceptance of HPV immunization was high and was not associated with knowledge of HPV...
Comparison of pertussis surveillance systems in EuropeAlberto E Tozzi
Bambino Gesu Hospital, Piazza S Onofrio, and Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy
Vaccine 25:291-7. 2007
..3 per 1000. The adoption of WHO case definition, standardisation of laboratory diagnosis, and integration of information on deaths from alternative sources should be supported...
- Comparison of quality of internet pages on human papillomavirus immunization in Italian and in English
Alberto Eugenio Tozzi
Bambino Gesu Hospital, 400165 Rome, Italy
J Adolesc Health 46:83-9. 2010
..To this end we compared the quality of a sample of Web pages in Italian with a sample of Web pages in English...
- Neuropsychological performance 10 years after immunization in infancy with thimerosal-containing vaccines
Alberto Eugenio Tozzi
Epidemiology Unit, Bambino Gesu Hospital, Piazza S Onofrio 4, 00165 Rome, Italy
Pediatrics 123:475-82. 2009
..We compared the neuropsychological performance, 10 years after vaccination, of 2 groups of children exposed randomly to different amounts of thimerosal through immunization...
- Effect of duration of breastfeeding on neuropsychological development at 10 to 12 years of age in a cohort of healthy children
Alberto Eugenio Tozzi
Epidemiology Unit, Bambino Gesu Children s Hospital, Rome, Italy
Dev Med Child Neurol 54:843-8. 2012
..The aim of this article was to explore the effect of duration of breastfeeding on neurocognitive development...
- Resurgence of pertussis in Europe
Lucia Pastore Celentano
Istituto Superiore di Sanit, Rome, Italy
Pediatr Infect Dis J 24:761-5. 2005
..CONCLUSIONS: Pertussis is far from being controlled in Europe. Whereas the incidence in children younger than 1 year was high but remained stable, rates in adults doubled in 5 years...
- Pediatric sentinel surveillance of vaccine-preventable diseases in Italy
Marta Luisa Ciofi degli Atti
Laboratorio di Epidemiologia e Biostatistica, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy
Pediatr Infect Dis J 21:763-8. 2002
..In January, 2000, a pediatric sentinel network was launched, with the aim of monitoring in a timely and accurate way the geographic and temporal trends of vaccine-preventable diseases...
- Analysis of readability and quality of web pages addressing both common and uncommon topics in pediatric surgery
Ottavio Adorisio
Pediatric Surgery and Transplantation Center, Bambino Gesu Children s Hospital, Rome, Italy
Eur J Pediatr Surg 22:228-33. 2012
..The aim of this study is to determine if Web pages addressing four common pediatric surgical topics (CT) and four uncommon pediatric surgical topics (UT) differ significantly in terms of quality and/or characteristics...
- Role of non-polio enterovirus infection in pediatric hemolytic uremic syndrome
Laura De Petris
Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, Bambino Gesù Children s Research Hospital and Institute for Scientific Research, Piazza Sant Onofrio 4, 00165 Rome, Italy
Pediatr Nephrol 17:852-5. 2002
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- Waterborne outbreak of Norwalk-like virus gastroenteritis at a tourist resort, Italy
Delia Boccia
Department of Communicable Disease, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy
Emerg Infect Dis 8:563-8. 2002
..Although Italy has no surveillance system for nonbacterial gastroenteritis, no outbreak caused by NLV has been described previously in the country...
- Hepatitis B specific T cell immunity induced by primary vaccination persists independently of the protective serum antibody level
Maria Carollo
Anti infectious Immunity Unit, Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Viale Regina Elena 299, Rome, Italy
Vaccine 31:506-13. 2013
..These findings suggest that cellular immune response should be considered alongside serological markers as a surrogate of protection...
- A comparison of populations vaccinated in a public service and in a private hospital setting in the same area
Elisabetta Pandolfi
Bambino Gesu Pediatric Hospital, Rome, Italy
BMC Public Health 8:278. 2008
..However, achieving high vaccination rates in children with chronic conditions is difficult. Different types of vaccine providers may differently attract high risk children...
- Increased risk of invasive meningococcal disease, pregnancy, and confounding
Alberto E Tozzi
Pediatrics 116:798-9; author reply 799. 2005
- Diagnosis and management of pertussis
Alberto E Tozzi
Epidemiology Unit, Bambino Gesu Hospital, Rome, Italy
CMAJ 172:509-15. 2005
..Erythromycin is still considered in some countries to be the "gold standard" for therapy and prophylaxis; however, azithromycin and clarithromycin seem equally efficacious and are associated with fewer side effects...
- Blood pressure in the long-term follow-up of children with hemolytic uremic syndrome
Laura De Petris
Department of Nephrology and Urology, Bambino Gesu Children s Hospital and Research Institute, Rome, Italy
Pediatr Nephrol 19:1241-4. 2004
..These results should be confirmed with a large prospective clinical study...
- Field evaluation of vaccine safety
Alberto E Tozzi
Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Viale Regina Elena, 299, 00161 Rome, Italy
Vaccine 22:2091-5. 2004
..Signals generated by surveillance systems may stimulate to conduct formal studies to assess causality...
- Clinical presentation of pertussis in unvaccinated and vaccinated children in the first six years of life
Alberto E Tozzi
Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy
Pediatrics 112:1069-75. 2003
..The objective of this study was to compare the clinical course of pertussis in unvaccinated and vaccinated children in a well-defined and strictly studied population and to identify determinants of the disease's clinical presentation...
- Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli infections associated with hemolytic uremic syndrome, Italy, 1988-2000
Alberto E Tozzi
Department of Communicable Disease, Unit of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, V le R Elena 299 00161 Roma, Italy
Emerg Infect Dis 9:106-8. 2003
..1% of patients. STEC O157 was the most common serotype, but a considerable number of cases were from infections by non-O157 STEC...
- Can hexavalent vaccines be simultaneously administered with pneumococcal or meningococcal conjugate vaccines?
Alberto E Tozzi
Bambino Gesu Hospital, Rome, Italy
Hum Vaccin 3:252-9. 2007
..We reviewed the available literature to assess the effects on immunogenicity and safety of simultaneous administration of hexavalent and conjugate pneumococcal and meningococcal C vaccines in healthy children...
