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Management of tick bites and suspicion of Lyme disease in Belgian primary care: compliance with national guidelines
occurred in Belgium. Majority of patients had Erythema Migrans (35.8%) or no symptoms (45.8%). Other clinical manifestations, such as arthritis (4.9%), less common. Serology test for Lyme disease was ordered ...
Resultaten van de 6e nationale campagne ter bevordering van de handhygiëne in ziekenhuizen, 2014-2015
contact’ and ‘exposure to body fluids’, compared to ‘before patient contact’, implying that healthcare workers consistently tend to protect themselves more or less than to protect the patient, as earlier ...
Contribution of chronic diseases to the disability burden in a population 15 years and older, Belgium, 1997-2008.
less than 200 m). Multiple additive regression models were fitted separately for men and women to estimate the age-specific background disability rate (experienced by everyone, independent of the ...
Estimation of hepatitis E virus (HEV) pig seroprevalence using ELISA and Western blot and comparison between human and pig HEV sequences in Belgium.
of special concern, particularly in high income countries were waterborne infections are less frequent than in developing countries. High HEV seroprevalences can be found in European pig populations. ...
Educational inequalities in leisure-time physical activity in 15 European countries.
leisure time is less common among the lower educational groups compared with the higher educational groups. Programs to promote LTPA should consider strategies that target people of lower ...
Premature mortality in Belgium in 1993-2009: leading causes, regional disparities and 15 years change
causes, but ranks differently for external causes, with less road accidents and suicide and more non-transport accidents than in the other regions. Age-adjusted premature mortality rates decreased by 29% ...
Socio-economic differences in participation of households in a Belgian national health survey.
research, based on aggregated data, showed that in Belgium less-educated people with poor health were less likely to participate in a health survey. In this article, the association by socio-economic status ...
Résultats de la 5ème campagne nationale pour la promotion de l'hygiène des mains dans les hôpitaux 2013
body fluids’, thus implying that healthcare workers tend to protect themselves more or less than to protect the patient, as earlier explained [7] (Figure 10). In conclusion, the fifth national campaign ...
Resultaten van de 5de Nationale campagne ter bevordering van de Handhygiëne (HH) in Ziekenhuizen, 2013
body fluids’, thus implying that healthcare workers tend to protect themselves more or less than to protect the patient, as earlier explained [7] (Figure 10). In conclusion, the fifth national campaign ...
Obstacles in measles elimination: an in-depth description of a measles outbreak in Ghent, Belgium, spring 2011.
further spread among unvaccinated family members. It was necessary to raise clinicians’ awareness of measles since it had become a rare, less known disease and went undiagnosed. Health Topics: Health and ...