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The use of the permanent sample (eps) to study the returnto- work after cancer. Challenges and opportunities for research
of socially insured Belgian citizens of almost 40 %, five years after the first MOC. Nevertheless, the structure of the EPS presents many limitations to the interpretation and reliability of results. ...
Pregnancy outcome after cervical conisation: A 2nd retrospective cohort study in the Leuven University Hospital.
a significant trend towards smaller cones which was accompanied by a decrease in preterm birth after excisional treatment. The clinician could limit the size of the cone to avoid obstetrical harms, but needs to ...
Role of mucosal high-risk human papillomavirus types in head and neck cancers in central India.
information on the contribution of HPV infection is limited. Here, we evaluated the HPV-attributable fraction in HNC (N = 364) collected in a central region of India. HNC from three different anatomical ...
HPV-based cervical cancer screening- facts, fiction, and misperceptions.
adding cytology to primary screening. However, there is currently limited data on optimal triage strategies for HPV-positive women, a critical component of an HPV-based screening program. There will likely ...
Genotyping for Human Papillomavirus Types 16 and 18 in Women With Minor Cervical Lesions: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
respectively, and was 5% in hrHPV-positive but HPV 16/18-negative women with either ASC-US or LSIL. Limitation: Methodological and technical heterogeneity among studies; insufficient data to assess accuracy of ...
Clinical action measures improve the reliability of feedback on quality of care in diabetes centres: a retrospective cohort study.
clinician’s actions and the longitudinal nature of chronic care are more reliable, although their major limitation is that they require more sophisticated electronic health records. We created a clinical action ...
Triage of ASC-H: A meta-analysis of the accuracy of high-risk HPV testing and other markers to detect cervical precancer.
probability of precancer with a diagnosis of ASC-H, the utility of triage is limited. The usual recommendation for referring women with ASC-H for colposcopy is not altered by a positive triage test, whatever ...
VALGENT: A protocol for clinical validation of human papillomavirus assays.
sent from a central laboratory to participating laboratories for testing with novel HPV assays with limited, extended or full genotyping capacity. Outcomes are derived from screening and pathology ...
Restricted access to antiretroviral treatment for undocumented migrants: a bottle neck to control the HIV epidemic in the EU/EEA.
population HIV susceptibility and vulnerability, which simultaneously affect HIV transmission. Undocumented migrants incur additional risks for contracting HIV due to limited access to adequate health care ...
Low prevalence of previous lower limb revascularisation in patients with diabetes and acute Charcot foot: results from a case-control study.
to occur in patients without a history of LLR. Despite the limitation of the cross-sectional nature of this study, our findings support the hypothesis that among patients with diabetes, Charcot foot ...