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Health and economic burden of Campylobacter
countries. Estimates of the Campylobacter cost-of-illness (COI) are available for several countries, and information is increasingly being generated on industry and government costs. Health Topics: Burden of ...
Is there evidence for correct diagnosis in cystic fibrosis registries?
NL, and G registries. Restricting CFTR mutation interpretation to 124 CF causing mutations in CFTR2, these numbers rose to 10.5, 10.4, 14.5 and 24.3% respectively. Excluding these subjects impacted on ...
Risk factors for methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a multi-laboratory study
study on a cohort of patients that underwent microbiological diagnostics in Belgium during 2005. The bacteriological results retrieved from 17 voluntary participating clinical laboratories were coupled ...
Usefulness of urinary nicotine metabolite levels to estimate smoking frequency
Laethem,D.; Joris Van Loco Source: European Conference on Tobbacco or Health, Turkish Association for Cancer Research and Control, National coalition on Tobacco or Health and European Cancer Leagues (ECL), ...
Association between variables used in the field substitution and post-stratification adjustment in the Belgian health interview survey and non-response.
techniques in the Belgian health interview survey 2004 are associated with non-response and assessed the impact of field substitution and post-stratification adjustment on the survey results. METHODS: Data ...
Quantifying burden of disease to support public health policy in Belgium: opportunities and constraints
Disease burden HEALTH POLICY Abstract: Background To support public health policy, information on the burden of disease is essential. In recent years, the Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY) has emerged as ...
Premature mortality in Belgium in 1993-2009: leading causes, regional disparities and 15 years change
(-21.0%) and the external causes (-20.8%). The larger decrease in single cause is observed for stomach cancer (-48.4%), road accident (-44%), genital organs (-40.4%) and lung (-34.6%) cancers. On the ...
Reliability and validity of a global question on self-reported chronic morbidity
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Johan Van der Heyden; De Bacquer, Dirk; Jean Tafforeau; Van Herck, Koen Source: Journal of Public Health, Volume 22, Issue 4, Number 380 (2014) Keywords: chronic condition health survey morbidity ...
National surveillance of nosocomial infections in neonatal intensive care units in Belgium (Neo-KISS)
Nosocomial infections Objective ON Patient patients period pilot Pneumonia prevention Primary bloodstream infection protocol Quality RATES report Respiratory result results risk Risk Factors Score study ...
Simultaneous identification of Staphylococcus aureus Enterotoxins A & B using online SPE-UPLC-MSMS
Staphylococcus aureus System Abstract: presentation at 2013 EFF oST Annual Meeting — Bio-based Technologies in the Context of European Food Innovation Systems on 13-15 November 2013 | Bologna, Italy Health ...