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Linking health survey data with health insurance data: methodology, challenges, opportunities and recommendations for public health research. An experience from the HISlink project in Belgium
aspects of HIS link are specific to the Belgian context, we believe that some lessons learned are useful in an international context, especially for other European Union member states that collect ...
Predicting COVID-19 progression in hospitalized patients in Belgium from a multi-state model
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Elly Mertens; Ben Serrien; Mathil Vandromme; José L. Peñalvo Source: Frontiers in Medicine, Volume 9 (2022) Manuscript versions: DOI: https://sciensano.be/en/10.3389/fmed.2022.1027674 File: Ve ...
A proposal for further developing fatigue-related post COVID-19 health states for burden of disease studies
less severe health states that may be more difficult to measure but are occurring very frequently. Our proposed approach provides a means to better understand the scale of challenge from long COVID, for ...
Expanding citizen engagement in the secondary use of health data: an opportunity for national health data access bodies to realise the intentions of the European Health Data Space
secondary use, the EHDS legislative proposal (published on 3 May 2022) argues that Member States should develop Health Data Access Bodies (HDAB s) whose responsibilities include facilitating the secondary use ...
The direct disease burden of COVID-19 in Belgium in 2020 and 2021
Burden of Disease Network consensus disease model for COVID-19 to estimate DALY s related to COVID-19. Estimates of person-years for (a) acute non-fatal disease states were calculated from a compartmental ...
Transforming Shiga toxin-producing surveillance through whole genome sequencing in food safety practices.
investigation and is not yet fully implemented in food safety surveillance across all European countries, in contrast to for example in the United States. METHODS: In this study, WGS was retrospectively applied ...
What does it take to create a European Health Data Space? International commitments and national realities
of building a health policy that could contribute to the long-term sustainable development of the European Union (EU), as stated in the European Health Union (EHU) manifesto. The main desire to create ...
Salmonella Durban meningitis: case report and genomics study.
male infant. The first clinical examination was reassuring, but after a few hours, his general state deteriorated. A blood test and a lumbar puncture were therefore performed. The cerebrospinal fluid ...
Scoping review of the association between bacterial vaginosis and emotional, sexual and social health
showing avoidance behavior. CONCLUSION: This review shows that symptomatic BV can be associated with diminished emotional, sexual, and social health, but there is too little evidence to state the extent of ...
Sex differences in diabetic foot ulcer severity and outcome in Belgium
associated with a higher probability of ulcer healing as a first event. Among many possible contributing factors, a worse vascular state associated with a higher rate of (previous) smoking in men stands out. ...