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Organizing the health interview survey at the local level: design of a pilot study.
target sample size was 1000 (≥ 15 years). A systematic sampling technique was applied with substitutes for non-respondents who were matched in terms of statistical sector, age and sex. Selected persons ...
The 2021 WHO catalogue of complex mutations associated with drug resistance: A genotypic analysis.
and Benjamini-Hochberg corrected p-values. Mutations were graded as Associated with Resistance if present in at least 5 isolates, if the odds ratio was >1 with a statistically significant corrected ...
Reliable and Scalable SARS-CoV-2 qPCR Testing at a High Sample Throughput: Lessons Learned from the Belgian Initiative.
for harmonized result reporting and nation-level infection statistics monitoring across the disparate testing methodologies and workflows, necessitated by a rapid scale-up as a response to the pandemic. ...
Variability in the association between long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and mortality by exposure assessment method and covariate adjustment: A census-based country-wide cohort study
Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS); NUTS-1 (n = 3), or NUTS-3 (n = 43). Results We found no consistent differences between both exposure methods. We observed most robust associations with lung cancer ...
Health care costs and lost productivity costs related to excess weight in Belgium
for €242 per capita but was not statistically significant, people with obesity showed a significantly higher cost (p < 0.001) compared to the normal weight population: €2,015 [95% CI: €179–€4,336] ...
Variation in smoking attributable all-cause mortality across municipalities in Belgium, 2018: application of a Bayesian approach for small area estimations
Horvitz-Thompson direct prevalence estimates. Municipality-level variables obtained from Statbel, the Belgian statistical office, were used as auxiliary variables in the model. Model parameters were estimated using ...
Fasciola spp. in Southeast Asia: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol
A descriptive statistical analysis will be conducted, and a meta-analysis will be run to estimate the prevalence of human and animal fascioliasis respectively, in Southeast Asia. Discussion. This systematic ...
Burden of disease of dietary exposure to four chemical contaminants in Denmark, 2019
the scientific literature, and disease incidence and population numbers from national statistics. We adopted a risk assessment approach to estimate disease burden, quantifying incidence, mortality, and ...
Changes in quality-adjusted life expectancy in Belgium, 2013 and 2018
Sullivan method was used to compute at different ages QALE by gender using mortality data from the Belgian statistical office and average EQ-5D scores from the BHIS. QALE was calculated for 2013 and 2018, ...
Mapping abundance distributions of allergenic tree species in urbanized landscapes: A nation-wide study for Belgium using forest inventory and citizen science data
statistical regressions to model the relationships between abundance, the habitat suitability predicted by the SDM s, and additional vegetation cover covariates. The combination of forest inventory data with ...