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Perceived utility and feasibility of pathogen genomics for public health practice: a survey among public health professionals working in the field of infectious diseases, Belgium, 2019
end-user requirements, and key drivers for the implementation of NGS. Descriptive statistics were used to report on the frequency distribution of multiple choice responses whereas thematic analysis was used ...
Reflections on key methodological decisions in national burden of disease assessments
when calculating BoD metrics. We have provided examples from different BoD studies that have developed their own strategies in data usage and implementation of statistical methods in the production of ...
The burden of legionnaires’ disease in Belgium, 2013 to 2017
Belgian statistical office were used. To arrive at an estimate of the total number of symptomatic cases in Belgium, we defined a surveillance pyramid and estimated a multiplication factor to account for LD ...
Estimates of the HIV undiagnosed population in Belgium reveals higher prevalence for MSM with foreign nationality and for geographic areas hosting big cities
areas: the province of Antwerp and the other provinces, because Antwerp is the second largest city after Brussels. Population sizes were determined using data from the Belgian Statistical Office and ...
Is the European Health Interview Survey online yet? Response and net sample composition of a web-based data collection.
non-participating households were replaced by similar households regarding statistical sector, sex and age. There was one reminder letter and a €10 conditional incentive. RESULTS: Considering all substitutions, a 16% ...
Thyroid cancer incidence near nuclear sites in Belgium: An ecological study at small geographical level
Bladel, Lodewijk; An Van Nieuwenhuyse; Christiane Vleminckx Source: International Journal of Cancer (2019) Keywords: ecological study incidence Nuclear sites statistical sector thyroid cancer Abstract: In ...
Confronting Risk of Bias in RF Bioeffects Research. Comments on Two Papers by Vijayalaxmi and Prihoda
4. sham exposures. They also examined study outcomes, i.e., whether or not studies reported statistically significant effects of exposure, and effect size (Cohen’s d, the sample estimate of the ...
Commentary to the recent study by Wang et al.
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Toon Braeye Source: Statistical Methods in Medical Research (2019) Health Topics: Health and disease monitoring Surveillance de la santé ...
How can we monitor the impact of national health information systems? Results from a scoping review.
information (HI) systems provide data on population health, the determinants of health and health system performance within countries. The evaluation of these systems has traditionally focused on statistical ...
Antibiotic resistance prediction for Mycobacterium tuberculosis from genome sequence data with Mykrobe.
improved identification of non-tuberculous mycobacterial species, and iv) an updated statistical model for Oxford Nanopore Technologies sequencing data. is released under MIT license at ...