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Human health and economic impact of neurocysticercosis in Uganda

impact was quantified as the cost of illness associated with direct healthcare costs, patient costs and productivity losses. For both assessments, we adopted an incidence perspective and used 2010 as ...

Maturation of Esophageal Motility and Esophagogastric Junction in Preterm Infants

wave patterns in response to nutritive swallows were observed in all patients. At later time points, esophageal body peristalsis became more rapid, evidenced by a faster distal contractile velocity and ...

Adjusting for comorbidity in incidence-based DALY calculations: an individual-based modeling approach

colorectal cancer patients aged 65 years. Ninety-five percent uncertainty intervals around median YLD values were estimated by Monte Carlo methods. Results The median estimated YLD per 1000 cases (due to both ...

Superficial mycoses in Belgium: Burden, costs and antifungal drugs consumption

practitioners while consumption varied according to age and gender of the patients. A global 12% decrease in antifungal prescriptions was observed between 2011 and 2017. However, this reduction would result ...

The health and economic impact of acute gastroenteritis in Belgium, 2010-2014

published data. We estimated the burden of illness during a 5-year period (2010-2014) in Belgium in terms of deaths, patients admitted to hospitals, patients consulting their general practitioner (GP) and ...

Melanoma burden by melanoma stage: Assessment through a disease transition model

burden, being the sum of years of life with disability (YLD) and years of life lost (YLL). A melanoma disease model was developed in order to predict the evolution of patients from diagnosis until death. ...

The health and economic burden of haemophilia in Belgium: a rare, expensive and challenging disease

of direct costs. CONCLUSIONS: Haemophilia represents both an economic and health burden, especially regarding individual health on an individual patient level. Initiatives to counteract this burden ...

The burden of cystic fibrosis in Belgium: a registry-based study

substantial distress on patient level. However, the specific impact on individual health as well as the national impact on public health remains to be elucidated. The aim of this dissertation is to quantify and ...

Cost-DALY comparison of hip replacement care in 12 Belgian hospitals

Belgian hospitals. METHODS: Our study seeks to innovate by proposing an interhospital comparison that simultaneously integrates the weighting of quality indicators and the costs of managing a patient. To this end, we ...

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