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SUBMITTER: Garcia-Garcia L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3208898 | biostudies-other | 2011 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
García-García Laura L Ariza-Megía M Carmen MC González-Escalada Alba A Alvaro-Meca Alejandro A Gil-Demiguel Angel A Gil-Prieto Ruth R
BMJ open 20110101 2
Objective In order to illustrate the important public health impact of syphilis, which is a preventable infection, the epidemiology of syphilis-related hospitalisations in Spain was studied over a 10-year period. Methods A retrospective study was conducted using the National Epidemiological Surveillance System for Hospital Data (Minimum Data Set). All hospitalisations due to syphilis infection in any diagnostic position (ICD-9-CM 090-097) between 1997 and 2006 were analysed, according to the Sp ...[more]