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Making the case for strong health information systems during a pandemic and beyond.

between February and June 2020. Emerging themes were clustered and analysed around a WHO framework for health information systems (HIS). We analyse strengths of HIS at two levels: (i) dealing with health ...

Iron Deficiency Is a Risk Factor for Thyroid Dysfunction During Pregnancy: A Population-Based Study in Belgium

stratified and clustered sampling design. Urine and blood samples were collected, and a questionnaire was completed face to face with the study nurse. Concentrations of free thyroxine (fT4), total thyroxine ...

Identifying Belgian protein consumption typologies by means of clustering and classification to move towards personalized advices for sustainable and nutritious food choices

Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Klara Van Mierlo; Karin De Ridder; Annemie Geeraerd Source: Appetite, Volume 166 (2021) Health Topics:  Voedselconsumptie en –veiligheid Food consumption and food safety Consommation et sécurité ...

Organisation of Multi-Mycotoxin Proficiency Tests: Evaluation of the Performances of the Laboratories Using the Triple A Rating Approach

and were clustered according to the triple A rating. Overall, at least 80% of the participating laboratories achieved good and acceptable performances. The most frequent categories assigned to good ...

Stakeholder Coalitions and Priorities Around the Policy Goals of a Nation-Wide Mental Health Care Reform

clinicians, and user representatives) involved in the Belgian mental healthcare reform. Four coalitions of stakeholders endorsing diferent mental health policy goals were identifed using a hierarchical cluster ...

Staphylococcal enterotoxin gene cluster: prediction of enterotoxin (SEG and SEI) production and of the source of food poisoning based on Saβ typing.

using commercially available kits.Six genes (and), encoding putative and undetectable enterotoxins, are located on the enterotoxin gene cluster () which is part of the genomic island Saβ. These ...

The Benefits of Whole Genome Sequencing for Foodborne Outbreak Investigation from the Perspective of a National Reference Laboratory in a Smaller Country.

enabled an accurate cluster definition, which remained unsolved for the 2013 outbreak, partly due to scarce epidemiological linking with the suspect source. Moreover, it allowed detecting two and one ...

Use of a Whole Genome Sequencing-based approach for Mycobacterium tuberculosis surveillance in Europe in 2017-2019: an ECDC pilot study.

comparability.From 25 countries, 2218 RR / MDR- MTBC isolates were collected. Fifty-six cross-border clusters with increased likelihood of recent transmission (≤5 SNP s distance) comprising a total of 316 RR / MDR- ...

Phylogeography of Human and Animal Strains: Genetic Fingerprinting of Q Fever in Belgium.

Sequencing (WGS) (n=4) methods were used to characterize samples/strains during 2009-2019. Three MLVA clusters (A, B, C) subdivided in 23 subclusters (A1- A12, B1- B8, C1- C3) and 3 SNP types (SNP1, SNP2, ...

Psycho-social factors related to obesity and their associations with socioeconomic characteristics: the RECORD study.

participants aged 30-79 years living in the Paris region between 2011 and 2014. Factor analyses followed by cluster analysis were applied to identify psycho-social profiles related to obesity. The two ...

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