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Does a national screening programme reduce socioeconomic inequalities in mammography use?
breast cancer Female Forecasting Health Education health inequaities health surveys Humans MAMMOGRAPHY Mass Screening middle aged ODDS RATIO SCREENING Socioeconomic Factors Utilization Review Abstract: ...
Analysis of 13 million individual patient records pertaining to Pap smears, colposcopies, biopsies and surgery on the uterine cervix (Belgium, 1996-2000).
screening by surveys overestimate coverage because of selection and reporting biases. METHODS: The prepared Inter-Mutualistic Agency dataset has about 13 million records from Pap smears, colposcopies, ...
Critical aspects in implementing the OECD monograph No. 14 "the application of the principles of GLP to in vitro studies".
the GLP principles. Furthermore, developments in the area of toxicogenomics, toxicoproteomics, toxicometabonomics and various high throughput screening techniques will also enhance the importance of in ...
Correlation between detection of antibodies against hepatitis C virus in oral fluid and hepatitis C virus RNA in serum.
positivity in serum and the detection of antibodies against HCV in oral fluid by testing paired serum/oral fluid samples. For the 85 serum samples found positive for antibodies against HCV, using a screening ...
Validation of the CALUX bioassay for PCDD/F analyses in human blood plasma and comparison with GC-HRMS.
bioassay for biological sample analysis and to compare toxic equivalency (TEQ) values obtained by the reference GC- HRMS technique and by the screening method. This article focuses on the validation results ...
Prevalence of human erythrovirus B19 DNA in healthy Belgian blood donors and correlation with specific antibodies against structural and non-structural viral proteins.
plasma-pool screening and exclusion of highly viraemic donations are recommended. The objectives of this study were to estimate the prevalence of B19 DNA in our blood-donor population, to determine the ...
The use of nucleic acid amplification techniques to increase the viral safety of blood.
dose. Many studies have already been conducted in different parts of the world, and the results proving the feasibility of the NAT screening are more than encouraging. However, some problems still remain ...
Cervical cancer screening in Belgium.
collection Female Health Personnel Humans incidence Interprofessional Relations Mass Screening middle aged Patient Acceptance of Health Care Practice Guidelines as Topic Quality Assurance, Health Care ...
Cervical cancer screening in the Flemish region (Belgium): measurement of the attendance rate by telephone interview.
Adult Age Distribution Aged Attitude to Health Belgium Confidence Intervals cross-sectional studies Female health surveys Humans incidence Interviews as Topic Mass Screening middle aged Multivariate ...
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus epidemiology and control in Belgian hospitals, 1991 to 1995. Groupement pour le Dépistage, l'Etude et la Prévention des Infections Hospitalières.
screen method (27%), automated systems (29%), or a combination of methods (29%) than in 1991 (P <.005). Between 1991 and 1995, the proportion of hospitals reporting MRSA control measures increased from ...