Résultats de la recherche - 448 results
Integrating technical and political views for a sustainable European Distributed Infrastructure on Population Health.
an integrated and sustainable European Distributed Infrastructure on Population Health (DIP oH) for research and evidence-informed policy-making. METHODS: InfAct established two main boards, the ...
A Summer of Cyanobacterial Blooms in Belgian Waterbodies: Microcystin Quantification and Molecular Characterizations
method allowed to detect and quantify eight microcystin congeners. The mcyE gene was detected using PCR, while dominant cyanobacterial species were identified using 16S RNA amplification and direct ...
Variability in the association between long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and mortality by exposure assessment method and covariate adjustment: A census-based country-wide cohort study
by exposure assessment method and by adjustment for geographic subdivisions. Methods We used the Belgian 2001 census linked to population and mortality register including nearly 5.5 million adults aged ...
The non-fatal burden of cancer in Belgium, 2004–2019: a nationwide registry-based study
to estimate the non-fatal burden of cancer in Belgium using national data. Methods We estimated the Belgian cancer burden from 2004 to 2019 in terms of YLD, using national population-based cancer ...
No molecular detection of tick-borne pathogens in the blood of patients with erythema migrans in Belgium
clinical manifestation. Methods Patients with fever (> 37.5 °C) after a tick bite or those with erythema migrans (EM) were included in the study. EDTA-blood samples were screened for the presence of DNA from Borrelia ...
COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in Belgian nursing homes: results of a surveillance conducted between April and December 2020
Belgian NH s. METHODS: A COVID-19 surveillance in all Belgian NH s (n = 1542) was set up by the regional health authorities and Sciensano. Aggregated data on possible/confirmed COVID-19 cases and ...
Healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use in Belgian nursing homes: results of three point prevalence surveys between 2010 and 2016
the main findings of the three national PPS s conducted in NH s participating in at least one of these surveys, and in a cohort that participated in all three consecutive surveys. Methods All NH s were ...
Nursing home residents with suspected urinary tract infections: a diagnostic accuracy study
urine dipstick testing in identifying UTI s in NH residents and to explore whether C-reactive protein (CRP) measured by point-of-care testing (POCT) can help in the diagnosis. Methods: During a three ...
Measuring disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) due to COVID-19 in Scotland, 2020
contextualise its population impact relative to other causes of disease and injury. Methods National deaths and daily case data were used. Deaths were based on underlying and contributory causes recorded on death ...
The association between area deprivation and COVID-19 incidence: a municipality-level spatio-temporal study in Belgium, 2020–2021
between COVID-19 incidence and area deprivation during the first five wave and interwave periods, thus adding a temporal gradient to the analyses. Methods We use all confirmed COVID-19 cases between March ...