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Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Use in Belgian Acute Care Hospitals: Results of the 2022 ECDC Point Prevalence Survey
A total of 56 acute care hospital sites participated, encompassing 10,142 patients. The 2022 survey revealed that 9.2% (95% confidence interval (CI): 8.7-9.8%) of patients had at least one HAI. This ...
Knowledge, perceptions and practices related to mosquitoes and mosquito-borne viruses: survey in Belgium, 2022
preventive measures upon observing mosquitoes in and around the house (cues to action, 5.3/7.0). Participants had limited confidence in finding information on preventive measures and in recognizing and ...
The overweight epidemic increasingly hits children of lower educated parents in Belgium
Since the BMI (kg/m²) in children is instable, age/sex-specific cutoff points are used to estimate the weighted prevalence (95% confidence interval) of self-reported overweight (including obesity), by SES ...
Increased surface area of halloysite nanotubes due to surface modification predicts lung inflammation and acute phase response after pulmonary exposure in mice
Eveline Verleysen; Jan Mast; Andreas Holländer; Keld Alstrup Jensen; Karin Sørig Hougaard; Vogel, Ulla Source: Nanosafety Cluster Week. Building confidence in risk assessment and governance of Nanomaterial ...
First Belgian national EQA for special stains in histopathology
ScientificInstitute of Public Health, in collaboration with the Commission of anatomic pathology. EQA programs havebecome imperative to give confidence in the quality of laboratory testing and to ensure delivery of ...
Collaborative development of an innovative provocation protocol in studying electrohypersensitivity
Some of their characteristics are summarized in Table 1, based on informal interviews. A dedicated questionnaire is developed to assess the level of sensitivity, the confidence of being sensitive to ...