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Strengthening Surveillance of Infectious Diseases in Belgium BE-SURVID: From COVID-19 to any other pathogen
COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for stronger infectious disease surveillance. BE- SURVID enhances continuous, digital surveillance at the general practitioner (GP), laboratory and hospital ...
Flemish consensus statement on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of urinary tract infections in older nursing home residents.
in a collaborative effort between the Flemish Hospital Outbreak Support Teams, the Flemish Agency for Care and Health, the Association of the Flemish Coordinating and Advising General Practitioners, ...
Associations of heat with diseases and specific symptoms in Flanders, Belgium: An 8-year retrospective study of general practitioner registration data.
hospital data. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to quantify the association between ambient temperature and a variety of potentially heat-related medical conditions and symptoms using general practitioner (GP) data, in ...
Personalized bacteriophage therapy outcomes for 100 consecutive cases: a multicentre, multinational, retrospective observational study.
difficult-to-treat infections facilitated by a Belgian consortium in 35 hospitals, 29 cities and 12 countries during the period from 1 January 2008 to 30 April 2022. We assessed how often personalized BT produced ...
Influenza like-illness surveillance using a Belgian sentinel network of nursing homes: results of October 2022 onwards
a proxy for NH residents. Throughout the year, weekly epidemiological/clinical data is collected on the number of ILI cases, ILI-related hospital admissions and deaths at NH level using an online ...
Expert report on FLAKKA
(2024) Accession Number: D/2024.14.440/25 Keywords: FLAKKA illicit drugs new psychoactive substances Abstract: This rapid assessment on the FLAKKA phenomenon in Belgium was created to support the General ...
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of healthcare workers: study protocol for the COVID-19 HEalth caRe wOrkErS (HEROES) study
Africa, Middle-East, and Asia. Methods Participants from various settings, including primary care clinics, hospitals, nursing homes, and mental health facilities, are being enrolled. In 26 countries, we are ...
Genomic monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 variants using sentinel SARI hospital surveillance.
Issue 10 (2023) Keywords: COVID-19 Genomics hospitals Humans Pandemics Pneumonia SARS-CoV-2 Sentinel Surveillance Abstract: BACKGROUND: To support the COVID-19 pandemic response, many countries, including ...
Pyrogen testing of phage therapeutic products
Queen Astrid Military Hospital in Brussels. With a few exceptions, the results on different phages demonstrate that in general pyrogenic contamination is low for most samples. Health Topics: ...
Validation of the Flemish-Dutch diabetic foot ulcer scale short form (DFS-SF) questionnaire for diabetic foot ulcers
the multidisciplinary diabetic foot clinic of Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Hospital Aalst, Belgium. DFS- SF items were reverse-coded so that high DFS- SF scores indicate better quality of life. Reliability was ...