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VALCOR: a protocol for the validation of SARS-corona virus-2 assays.
that requires evaluation. DISCUSSION: VALCOR provides a harmonised and standard framework to benchmark the testing performance of SARS-CoV-2 assays that are rapidly evolving. As the pandemic incited an ...
EU health information progress: the harvest of policy supporting projects and networks
data, standards, methods, indicators and knowledge that may be lost as these networks become inactive. The aim of this project retrieval and review was to identify health information projects and networks ...
Sensitivity of candling as routine method for the detection and recovery of ascaridoids in commercial fish fillets.
reference standard. The overall Se of candling was 31% (95% CI 23-41%) and NPV was 87% (95% CI 85-90%). The Se increased with higher numbers of larvae/100 g infected muscle. A low NPV was found for the belly ...
Reliable and Scalable SARS-CoV-2 qPCR Testing at a High Sample Throughput: Lessons Learned from the Belgian Initiative.
Capron; Hugues Malonne; J Poels; Emmanuel André Source: Life (Basel), Volume 12, Issue 2 (2022) Abstract: We present our approach to rapidly establishing a standardized, multi-site, nation-wide COVID-19 ...
The non-fatal burden of cancer in Belgium, 2004–2019: a nationwide registry-based study
increased disability due to surgical treatment. Results The age-standardized non-fatal burden of cancer increased from 2004 to 2019 by 6 and 3% respectively for incidence- and prevalence-based YLD s. In 2019, ...
Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) due to the direct health impact of COVID-19 in India, 2020
deaths due to COVID-19 by the residual standard life expectancy at the age of death due to the disease. YLD was calculated as a product of the number of incident cases of COVID-19, disease duration and ...
Variation in smoking attributable all-cause mortality across municipalities in Belgium, 2018: application of a Bayesian approach for small area estimations
multiplying PAF with age-gender standardized and stratified number of deaths in each municipality. Results BHIS 2018 data included 7,829 respondents from 154 municipalities. Smoothed estimates for current ...
Non-specific symptoms and post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome in patients with Lyme borreliosis: a prospective cohort study in Belgium (2016–2020)
for and causes of this syndrome. In addition, development and validation of standardized methods to assess the PTLDS case definition, easily applicable in practice, is of great importance. Health ...
VALCOR: a protocol for the validation of SARS-corona virus-2 assays
a reference comparator assay) to participating laboratories for testing with a SARS-CoV-2 index assay that requires evaluation. Discussion: VALCOR provides a harmonised and standard framework to benchmark the ...
Mapping European research networks providing health data: results from the InfAct Joint Action on health information.
metadata-reporting standards used for data description (9/49). CONCLUSIONS: Improving health information and availability of high quality data is a priority in Europe. Research networks could play a major role in ...