Impact of community-acquired paediatric rotavirus gastroenteritis on family life: data from the REVEAL study

BMC Primary Care

Table 1 Percentage of cases of rotavirus-positive gastroenteritis (RVGE) that required at least one parent or other person to be absent from work

Study area	Cases of RVGE requiring at least one parent or other person to be absent from work
	Hospital		Emergency department		Primary care
	%	n/N	%	n/N	%	n/N
Belgium	39	11/29	50	1/2	64	9/14
France	43	13/30	44	22/50	42	8/19
Germany	53	17/32	--^a	--^a	36	36/99
Italy	81	43/55	64	94/147	44	55/125
Spain	68	30/46	44	41/96	32	30/94
Sweden	73	46/63	58	29/51	100^b	1/1^b
United Kingdom	91	20/22	50	8/16	20	2/10

^aIn the German study area, all eligible children who presented to the emergency department with RVGE during the study were referred to the hospital, so there were no inclusions for the emergency department setting.
^bOnly one child with RVGE was included from the primary-care setting in Sweden; both parents lost at least 1 day from work.

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