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Prophylactic vaccination against human papillomaviruses to prevent cervical cancer and its precursors.

at low risk of bias. Studies involved monovalent (N = 1), bivalent (N = 18), and quadrivalent vaccines (N = 7). Most women were under 26 years of age. Three trials recruited women aged 25 and over. We ...

A Framework for the Risk Assessment and Management of Gene Drive Technology in Contained Use

mechanisms. These mechanisms of biased inheritance may yield promising applications in the fields of vector control and nature conservation. However, the same properties that will enable these applications may ...

Association of Endometrial Cancer Risk With Postmenopausal Bleeding in Women

and synthesis:  Two independent reviewers evaluated study quality and risk of bias using items from the Newcastle-Ottawa Quality Assessment Scale and the Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy ...

Additional weighting for education affects estimates from a National Health Interview Survey.

Oyen; Van Herck, Koen Source: Eur J Public Health, Volume 27, Issue 5, p.892-897 (2017) Keywords: Adult Aged Aged, 80 and over Belgium bias Data Interpretation, Statistical Educational Status Female ...

What can the CF registry tell us about rare CFTR-mutations? A Belgian study.

to CF-controls, carrying 2 class 1 to 3 mutations (CF classic). Disease severity was compared between both groups. To avoid bias in the comparison, transplanted patients were excluded from each group. ...

Development and validation of a HS/GC-MS method for the simultaneous analysis of diacetyl and acetylpropionyl in electronic cigarette refills

Number 224, p.218- 224 (2017) Keywords: Analyses analysi analysis approach AS Belgium bias Brussels Control Development electronic EVALUATION food health identify Institute IS journal measurement Medicine ...

Biomarkers in patients admitted to the emergency department after exposure to acrylonitrile in a major railway incident involving bulk chemical material.

time and duration of exposure and the smoking-status. A second limitation is that blood samples for biomarkers were not taken systematically in all patients, which may have induced bias. A third ...

Epidemiology, Impact and Control of Rabies in Nepal: A Systematic Review

health authorities is limited at present, further complicating rabies control in Nepal. Important research gaps include the reporting biases for both human and animal rabies, the ecology of stray dog ...

Regional differences in the validity of self-reported use of health care in Belgium: selection versus reporting bias.

the impact of selection and reporting bias on the validity of regional differences in health care use observed in the BHIS. METHODS: To assess reporting bias, self-reported BHIS 2008 data were linked ...

Simulation enhanced distributed lag models for mortality displacement.

Distributed lag models (DLM) are attractive methods for dealing with mortality displacement, however their estimates can have substantial bias when the data is generated by a multi-state model. In particular ...

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