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Mixing mixed-mode designs in a national health interview survey: a pilot study to assess the impact on the self-administered questionnaire non-response.
to complete the web SAQ. Yet among those, only 78.5% (84/107) actually did. At the end, the overall (web and P&P) SAQ unit response rate reached 73.5%. In this study older people were less likely ...
Is the European Health Interview Survey online yet? Response and net sample composition of a web-based data collection.
response rate was obtained after sending one reminder. Elderly, Brussels Capital inhabitants, people living without a partner and those with a non-Belgian nationality were less responding. By design, there ...
Development of a real-time PCR method for the genoserotyping of Salmonella Paratyphi B variant Java.
fermenting isolates (also called variant Java) of the same serotype trigger the less dangerous gastroenteritis. The determination of S. Paratyphi B variants requires a time-consuming process and complex ...
Combining primary care surveillance and a meta-analysis to estimate the incidence of the clinical manifestations of Lyme borreliosis in Belgium, 2015–2017
inhabitants (95% UI 1.5–3.7) for Lyme neuroborreliosis, 2.1/100,000 (95% UI 1.7–2.6) for Lyme arthritis and 1.4/100,000 (95% UI 1.1–1.7) for other less frequent manifestations. Some of these LB manifestations, ...
STAT6 Mediates Footpad Immunopathology in the Absence of IL-12p40 Following Infection of Susceptible BALB/c Mice With.
mice. In conclusion, this study demonstrate that in the absence of both STAT6 and IL-12p40 signaling,-infected mice display smaller and less ulcerated lesions, which does, however, not correlate with ...
Haemolytic uremic syndrome surveillance in children less than 15 years in Belgium, 2009-2015.
in Belgium is quite comprehensive and, although less effective than monitoring all STEC infections to detect the emergence of outbreaks, is important to better monitor circulation of the most ...
The effect of enteral tube feeding in cystic fibrosis: A registry based study.
+0.39%/year afterwards. Controls displayed decline of-0.48%/year (p < 0.0001). CONCLUSION: ETF introduction improved BMI z-score and stabilized FEV1, associated with less hospitalizations and IVAB ...
What can the CF registry tell us about rare CFTR-mutations? A Belgian study.
(0.1-2,0) (p < 0.0001)], lower sweat chloride [96 mmol/L (64-107) vs. 104 mmol/L (97-115) (p < 0.0001)], higher FEV1 %pred [77%pred (58-96) vs. 68%pred (48-86) (p = 0.017)], were less frequently ...
Measurement equivalence of the Belgian health interview auto-questionnaire: paper-based versus web-based mode.
There were no less missing values in the web-based mode compared to the paper-and-pencil mode. The study supports the idea that web-based modes provide, in general, equal responses to paper-and-pencil ...
Multi-laboratory validation study of multilocus variable-number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) for Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis, 2015.
internationally comparable results as more than 90% of the participants reported less than 5% discrepant MLVA profiles. All 14 participating laboratories performed well, even those where experience with this typing ...