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Analysis of the short-term effect of pollen and spore exposure on allergy medication sales
in Belgium. Pollen is an important trigger but fungal spores might also influence the onset of symptoms. The purpose of this study was to assess the health impact of these aeroallergens based on their ...
Surveillance of Clostridium difficile infections in a long-term care psychogeriatric facility: outbreak analysis and policy improvement.
CONCLUSIONS: Aside from stringent hygiene and antibiotic prescription stewardship, malnutrition of patients is a factor to be taken into account to contain a CDI outbreak in a long term care facility (LTCF). ...
Identification of (antioxidative) plants in herbal pharmaceutical preparations and dietary supplements.
identification of a targeted plant or herb in pharmaceutical preparations or dietary supplements, can be found. In these products the targeted plant is often present together with other components of herbal or ...
In vitro Dermal Absorption: Sample Application and Seal Quality in a Franz Diffusion Cell System.
known drawbacks of in vitro dermal absorption methods is their high interlaboratory variation. Although often attributed to biological skin differences, it has been shown that validation of other ...
Application of the characteristic function to evaluate and compare analytical variability in an external quality assessment scheme for serum ethanol.
characteristic function is used to describe the relation between the target concentration and the EQA standard deviation, which is an essential part of the evaluation process. The characteristic function is also ...
External Quality Assessment for the Detection of Chlamydia trachomatis in Urine Using Molecular Techniques in Belgium.
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Bernard China; Kris Vernelen Source: J Sex Transm Dis, Volume 2015, p.835261 (2015) Abstract: Chlamydia trachomatis is a major cause of ...
Multi locus variable-number tandem repeat (MLVA) typing tools improved the surveillance of Salmonella enteritidis: a 6 years retrospective study.
Repeats Public Health Surveillance Retrospective Studies Salmonella enteritidis Salmonella Infections Abstract: Surveillance of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Enteritidis is generally ...
Landscape and regional environmental analysis of the spatial distribution of hantavirus human cases in europe.
Swart, Arno N; Vainio, Kirsti; Hjertqvist, Marika; Vanwambeke, Sophie O Source: Front Public Health, Volume 3, p.54 (2015) Abstract: BACKGROUND: In Europe, the most prevalent hantavirus, Puumala virus, is ...
The global activity limitation indicator and self-rated health: two complementary predictors of mortality.
The purpose of this study is to compare the ability of the Global Activity Limitation Indicator (GALI) and self-rated health (SRH) to predict all-cause mortality in the general adult population. ...
Does the Belgian diabetes type 2 care trajectory improve quality of care for diabetes patients?
general practitioners GP Group HbA1c health Health information implementation improve Improvement INFORMATION Institute IS journal Laboratories longitudinal management method methods MODEL Monitoring ...