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Francesca Valent
Researcher at University of Udine
Publications - 176
Citations - 4035
Francesca Valent is an academic researcher from University of Udine. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 34, co-authored 166 publications receiving 3525 citations. Previous affiliations of Francesca Valent include Misericordia University & University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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Risk factors for fatal road traffic accidents in Udine, Italy.
Francesca Valent,Flavio Schiava,Cecilia Savonitto,Tolinda Gallo,Silvio Brusaferro,Fabio Barbone,Fabio Barbone +6 more
TL;DR: Simple interventions focused on protecting the weakest road users and based on law enforcement, behavioral change and environmental modification might result in reducing the significant excess of road traffic accident mortality found in the study area.
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Burden of disease attributable to selected environmental factors and injury among children and adolescents in Europe
Francesca Valent,D’Anna Little,Roberto Bertollini,Leda E Nemer,Fabio Barbone,Giorgio Tamburlini +5 more
TL;DR: Large proportions of deaths and DALYs in European children are attributable to outdoor and indoor air pollution, inadequate water and sanitation, lead exposure, and injuries, and interventions aimed at reducing children's exposure to environmental factors and injuries could result in substantial gains.
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Procalcitonin: A Marker of Severity of Acute Pyelonephritis Among Children
Paolo Pecile,Elisabetta Miorin,Carla Romanello,Edmondo Falleti,Francesca Valent,Francesco Giacomuzzi,A. Tenore +6 more
TL;DR: Serum PCT levels may be a sensitive and specific measure for early diagnosis of acute pyelonephritis and determination of the severity of renal parenchymal involvement, and could be useful for the treatment of children with febrile UTIs, allowing prediction of patients at risk of permanent paren chymal renal lesions.
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The value of clinical features in differentiating between viral, pneumococcal and atypical bacterial pneumonia in children
TL;DR: To evaluate the value of clinical features in differentiating between viral, pneumococcal and atypical bacterial pneumonia in children, a large number of children with suspected or confirmed cases of pneumonia are surveyed.
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Predictors of morbidity in patients with indwelling ureteric stents: results of a prospective study using the validated Ureteric Stent Symptoms Questionnaire.
Gianluca Giannarini,Francis X. Keeley,Francesca Valent,Francesca Manassero,Andrea Mogorovich,Riccardo Autorino,Cesare Selli +6 more
TL;DR: Study Type – Therapy (case series) Level of Evidence 3 study type – therapy ( case series) level of evidence