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Establishing disease models for the Belgian national burden of disease study: challenges and perspectives
currently provides disease burden estimates for 38 key diseases. The calculation of the non-fatal component of the disease burden, the Years Lived with Disability (YLD), follows a stepwise approach that aims ...
Unravelling COVID-19 social mortality patterns using conditional inference tree algorithm
first-generation migrants, and deprived SE groups experienced higher odds of dying from COVID-19 compared to survival; living in collectivities was identified by the CIT as the strongest predictor followed by age ...
The data layer: the importance of sources critical appraisal
focus on their sensitivity and specificity. These qualities are appraised following a dedicated scoring form into different categories (i.e., high, medium, low). The selection criteria for data sources ...
Anxiety and depression in people with post-COVID condition: a Belgian population-based cohort study three months after SARS-CoV-2 infection.
A total of 3127 people were followed-up just after their infection and three months later (from April 2021 to January 2022). Anxiety and depression were assessed at the two stages using the GAD-7 ...
The health and economic burden of musculoskeletal disorders in Belgium from 2013 to 2018
with the highest number of cases for both men and women, followed by LBP. In the same year, MSK disorders contributed to a total of 180,746 DALY s for female and 116,063 DALY s for men. LBP appeared to ...
Living with a chronic disease: insights from patients with a low socioeconomic status
Belgium. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in chronically ill patients, selected through purposive sampling. Interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Analysis followed an inductive ...
Health-related quality of life in patients with non-communicable disease: study protocol of a cross-sectional survey
in Flanders (Belgium). Study participants (≥18 years) are medically diagnosed with at least one of the following diseases: cardiometabolic disorders, mental disorders and musculoskeletal disorders. ...
End-of-life communication in advanced cancer: international trends (2009-2014).
Lieve; Deliens, Luc Source: BMJ Support Palliat Care (2020) Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To examine trends in end-of-life communication with people with cancer in general practice. METHODS: Mortality follow ...
Measuring disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) due to low back pain in Malta
severity (with and without leg pain – mild, moderate, severe and most severe) and their corresponding disability weights followed values reported in the GBD study. Years lived with disability (YLD) for LBP ...
Development of a generic and open source Incidence-Prevalence-Mortality model for the assessment of chronic disease epidemiology
epidemiological parameters of a disease. It accepts data on three of the following ve inputs: incidence, remission, case fatality, mortality, and prevalence. Likewise, it allows users to manipulate options on the ...