Public Health
Volume 121, Issue 2 , Pages 144-147 , February 2007

Trends in adrenaline (EpiPen) dispensing in Israel in 1997–2004

  • Yael Levy

      Affiliations

    • Kipper Institute of Immunology, Schneider Children's Medical Centre of Israel, Petah Tiqva, Israel
    • Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Kipper Institute of Immunology, Schneider Children's Medical Centre of Israel, Petah Tiqva 49202, Israel. Tel.: +97239253710; fax: +97239253905.
    • ,
  • Nirit Segal

      Affiliations

    • Kipper Institute of Immunology, Schneider Children's Medical Centre of Israel, Petah Tiqva, Israel
    • ,
  • Yehuda L. Danon

      Affiliations

    • Kipper Institute of Immunology, Schneider Children's Medical Centre of Israel, Petah Tiqva, Israel
    • Felsenstein Medical Research Centre, Petah Tiqva, Israel
    • Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Received 21 April 2005 ,Revised 13 July 2006 ,Accepted 31 August 2006.

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PII: S0033-3506(06)00279-4

doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2006.08.017

Public Health
Volume 121, Issue 2 , Pages 144-147 , February 2007

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