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Differences in primary palliative care between people with organ failure and people with cancer: An international mortality follow-back study using quality indicators.
repeated multidisciplinary consultations; involvement of specialized palliative care; place of death; and bereavement counseling. SETTING / PARTICIPANTS: Patients (18+) who died non-suddenly of cancer, ...
Pre-exposure intradermal rabies vaccination: a non-inferiority trial in healthy adults on shortening the vaccination schedule from 28 to 7 days.
result in wider acceptance. Methods: We conducted a non-inferiority trial in 500 healthy adults comparing the safety and immunogenicity of a two-visit (day 0 and day 7) intradermal (ID) primary vaccination ...
Prophylactic vaccination against human papillomaviruses to prevent cervical cancer and its precursors.
above [CIN3 +], and adenocarcinoma-in-situ [AIS]), and for harms. We distinguished between the effects of vaccines by participants’ baseline HPV DNA status. The outcomes were precancer associated with ...
Prevalence of drug use during sex amongst MSM in Europe: Results from a multi-site bio-behavioural survey.
drugs and chemsex drugs. RESULTS: Overall, 1261 (30.0%) participants reported drug use, and 436 of 3706 (11.8%) reported the use of two or more drugs during their last sexual encounter. By drug class, 966 ...
Phylogenetic analysis of the Belgian HIV-1 epidemic reveals that local transmission is almost exclusively driven by men having sex with men despite presence of large African migrant communities.
frequently found in clusters than on individual branches (6.0% vs. 41.8%; p < 0.001). Of the SSA that participated in clustered transmission, 66.7% were MSM and this contrasts sharply with the overall 12.0% ...
Seroprevalence and risk factors related to small ruminant lentivirus infections in Belgian sheep and goats.
however exists, but less than 2% of the farmers participate to the program. The current lack of SRLV seroprevalence data and knowledge on risk factors related to SRLV seropositivity in this hobbyist sector ...
Assessing factors associated with long-term work disability after cancer in Belgium: a population-based cohort study using competing risks analysis with a 7-year follow-up.
after cancer. Such insight should help with the planning of rehabilitation needs and tailored programmes. PARTICIPANTS: We conducted this register-based cohort study using individual data from the Belgian ...
Palliative care service use by older people: Time trends from a mortality follow-back study between 2005 and 2014.
DESIGN: Mortality follow-back survey among general practitioners in a nationally representative Sentinel Network in 2005-2010, 2013 and 2014 in Belgium. SETTING / PARTICIPANTS: Of all their patients who ...
Taxonomic annotation of public fungal ITS sequences from the built environment- A report from an April 10-11, 2017 workshop (Aberdeen, UK)
The 32 participants went through public fungal ITS barcode sequences related to the built mycobiome for taxonomic and nomenclatural correctness, technical quality, and metadata availability. A total of ...
Evaluation of the clinical performance of the HPV-Risk assay using the VALGENT-3 panel.
within the VALGENT-3 panel, and to compare its performance to the clinically validated Hybrid Capture 2 assay (HC2). The VALGENT-3 panel comprises 1,300 consecutive samples from women participating in the ...