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Antimicrobial use in European acute care hospitals: results from the second point prevalence survey (PPS) of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use, 2016 to 2017
activities across the participating countries. The results of the PPS provide detailed information on antimicrobial use in European acute care hospitals, enable comparisons between countries and hospitals, and ...
Personal exposure to traffic-related air pollutants and relationships with respiratory symptoms and oxidative stress: A pilot cross-sectional study among urban green space workers.
8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine [8- OH dG]). Associations between exposure and health outcomes were investigated using comparison tests and linear regression models, after stratification by present-day smoking status. Spatial ...
Personal exposure to traffic-related air pollutants and relationships with respiratory symptoms and oxidative stress: A pilot cross-sectional study among urban green space workers
respiratory/urinary biomarkers (exhaled nitric oxide [NO], 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine [8- OH dG]). Associations between exposure and health outcomes were investigated using comparison tests and linear regression models, ...
Predictors of personal continuity of care of patients with severe mental illness: A comparison across five European countries
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Pierre Smith; Pablo Nicaise; Giacco Domenico; Victoria Jane Bird; Michael Bauer; Mirella Ruggeri; Marta Welbel; Andrea Pfennig; Antonio Lasalvia; Jacek Moskalewicz; Stefan Priebe; Lorant, Vincent ...
Clinical and Analytical Evaluation of the Anyplex II HPV HR Detection Assay within the VALGENT-3 Framework.
Cervical Neoplasms Abstract: In 2012, VAL idation of human papillomavirus (HPV) GEN otyping T ests (VALGENT) was initiated to provide a formalized and uniform study framework for comparison and validation of ...
Generating the evidence for risk reduction: a contribution to the future of food-based dietary guidelines.
research question. Explicit definitions of study questions should include participants, interventions/exposure, comparisons, outcomes and study design. Such type of meta-analyses should not only focus on ...
Seasonal Genetic Drift of Human Influenza A Virus Quasispecies Revealed by Deep Sequencing
Mutation frequencies and single nucleotide polymorphisms were used for comparisons to address the level of natural intrinsic heterogeneity of influenza A viruses. Clear differences in single nucleotide ...
Comparison of matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) systems for the identification of moulds in the routine microbiology laboratory.
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: D Dupont; A-C Normand; F Persat; Marijke Hendrickx; R Piarroux; M Wallon Source: Clin Microbiol Infect (2018) Abstract: OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to compare the efficiency of moul ...
Rapid detection of tetracycline resistance in bovine Pasteurella multocida isolates by MALDI Biotyper antibiotic susceptibility test rapid assay (MBT-ASTRA).
a comparison with disk diffusion was made. Sensitivity and specificity of the MBT- ASTRA procedure were 95.7% (95% confidence interval (CI) = 89.8-101.5) and 100% (95% CI = 100-100), respectively, classifying ...
Utilization of gabapentin by people in treatment for substance use disorders in Belgium (2011-2014): a cross-sectional study.
the comparison group ( = 122,142). In both populations, more than half of the patients bought only once or twice gabapentin and about 10.0% bought at least once gabapentin in a time span that could ...