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The overweight epidemic increasingly hits children of lower educated parents in Belgium
increasing trend seems to be levelling off since 2000. The purpose of this study is to examine this trend over the past two decades in Belgium and whether this trend differs by the parents’ socioeconomic ...
Were SARS-CoV-2 self-tests used for their intended purpose? The experience in Belgium.
for using a self-test were having symptoms (34% of users in April 2021 and 31% in December 2021) and after a risk contact (27% in both April and December). Moreover, the number of self-tests sold, and ...
Humoral and cellular immune responses against SARS-CoV-2 after third dose BNT162b2 following double-dose vaccination with BNT162b2 versus ChAdOx1 in cancer patients.
Marc; Peter A van Dam Source: Clin Cancer Res (2022) Abstract: PURPOSE: Cancer patients display reduced humoral responses after double-dose COVID-19 vaccination while their cellular response is more ...
Poor timing and failure of source control are risk factors for mortality in critically ill patients with secondary peritonitis.
Peritonitis Retrospective Studies Risk Factors Sepsis Abstract: PURPOSE: To describe data on epidemiology, microbiology, clinical characteristics and outcome of adult patients admitted in the intensive care ...
Healthy Data, an online citizen consultation about health data reuse – intermediate report
purpose behind reuse was a key question for participants. They generally supported health data reuse to support the common good (they mention: improve public health, healthcare, research and policy). ...
Post COVID-19 condition and its physical, mental and social implications: protocol of a 2-year longitudinal cohort study in the Belgian adult population.
impacts of a COVID-19 infection are still scarce. The purpose of this paper is to describe the COVIMPACT study, which aims to set up a cohort of people who have been tested positive for COVID-19 and study ...
Post COVID-19 condition and its physical, mental and social implications: protocol of a 2-year longitudinal cohort study in the Belgian adult population
that is, Post COVID-19 condition (PCC). However, evidence on the long-term health impacts of a COVID-19 infection are still scarce. The purpose of this paper is to describe the COVIMPACT study, which ...
ADVANCE database characterisation and fit for purpose assessment for multi-country studies on the coverage, benefits and risks of pertussis vaccinations.
Vaccine (2020) Keywords: Big data Fit-for-purpose Real world evidence Vaccination Abstract: INTRODUCTION: The public-private ADVANCE consortium (Accelerated development of vaccine benefit-risk collaboration ...
Validation of a Bioinformatics Workflow for Routine Analysis of Whole-Genome Sequencing Data and Related Challenges for Pathogen Typing in a European National Reference Center: as a Proof-of-Concept.
employed methods are “fit-for-purpose” and provide high-quality results. A harmonized framework with guidelines for the validation of WGS workflows does currently, however, not exist yet, despite several ...
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.
purpose of this study was to compare the efficiency of mould identification of two matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI- TOF MS) systems — Vitek MS (VMS) and ...