Vol. 15 No. 4 (2018)

Published: 2022-02-15

Editorial

Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccination in Italy: towards new perspectives and new challenges

Vittoria Colamesta, Adriano Grossi, Andrea Barbara, Anna Acampora, Francesco Andrea Causio, Giovanna Elisa Calabrò, Chiara de Waure
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Original articles

Efficiency and Optimal size of Italian Public Hospitals: Results from Data Envelopment Analysis

Monica Giancotti, Giorgia Rotundo, Vito Pipitone, Marianna Mauro
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Socio-economic disparities in the appropriateness of diabetes care in an Italian region: findings of AEQUITAS study

Rosaria Gesuita, Francesca Piraccini, Edlira Skrami, Italo Paolini, Giuliano Sebastianelli, Carlo Stramenga, Dario Bartolucci, Alberico Marcobelli, Fabio Romagnoli, Giulia Silvestrini, Walter Ricciardi, Gianfranco Damiani, Flavia Carle
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Willingness to pay for vaccination against hepatitis b and its determinants: the case study of an industrial district of Pakistan

Azeem Sardar, Muhammad Rizwan Yaseen, Azhar Abbas, Muhammad Waqas, Basir Afzaal Gill
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Parents Knowledge, attitude and practice of antibiotic use for upper respiratory tract infections in children: a cross-sectional study in Ras Al khaimah, United Arab Emirates

Rasha Aziz Salama, Kussai Nidam Bader, Abeer Sharmen Rahmen, Fatima Hashmi
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An observational study on the effects of early and late risk factors on the development of childhood obesity in the South of Italy

Raffaele Squeri, Cristina Genovese, Maria Angela Rita Palamara, Giuseppe Trimarchi, Concetta Ceccio, Vittoria Donia, Maria Pecoraro, Giuseppa La Monica, Vincenza La Fauci
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Systematic reviews and meta- and pooled analyses

Intermediate care units in progressive patient care model: a systematic literature review

Vittoria Colamesta , Valentina Dugo, Daniele Ignazio La Milia, Lorenzo Sommella, Giovanni Battista Orsi, Roberto Bucci, Corrado De Vito, Giuseppe La Torre, Patrizia Laurenti, Sandro Mancinelli, Massimo Maurici, Gianfranco Damiani, Leonardo Palombi, Paolo Villari, Elisabetta De Vito, Walter Ricciardi
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Statistical Methods

Early feeding and growth pattern in infants: Using a three-variate longitudinal model derived from Gaussian copula function

Kambiz Ahmadi Angali, Mohammad Sadegh Loeloe, Mohammad Reza Akhoond, Alireza Daneshkhah, Fatemeh Borazjani
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Area under the curve-derived measures characterizing longitudinal patient responses for given thresholds

Andreas Allgoewer, Manuel Schmid, Peter Radermacher, Pierre Asfar, Benjamin Mayer
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An inverse probability weighting method for estimating the net benefit in survival analyses in observational studies

Yasutaka Chiba
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Handling missing continuous outcome data in a Bayesian network meta-analysis

Danila Azzolina, Ileana Baldi, Clara Minto, Daniele Bottigliengo, Giulia Lorenzoni, Dario Gregori
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