Epidemiology of acute respiratory disease at the Pediatric Emergency Room of the Social Security Medical Center in Panama City, Panama.
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Within Latin America, longitudinal hospital surveillance studies of acute childhood respiratory diseases are very rare. This article reports the results of one such study conducted at the pediatric emergency ward of the Social Security Hospital in Panama City from March through December 1983. In all, 340 children with lower respiratory tract diseases (primary admission diagnoses of asthma, bronchiolitis, obstructive reversible bronchitis, or pneumonia) were included in the study.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Bulletin of the Pan American Health Organization
دوره 19 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1985