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Immediate referral to colposcopy versus cytological surveillance for minor cervical cytological abnormalities in the absence of HPV test.
surveillance, may have led to study design-derived bias; we therefore considered the evidence to be of low quality.When we excluded the exit examination, the detection rate of high-grade lesions at the 18-month ...
The BBEMG research program- A multidisciplinary approach in studying long-term effects of ELF-EMF
effects of extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields (ELF- EMF) are still uncertain. On the one hand, results of epidemiological studies are controversial because of their limitations (bias, too small ...
Do more people in Europe need treatment for problems related to cocaine use? An analysis of cocaine treatment demand in 10 Western European countries
for trend analysis will be used in each of the nine countries in order to avoid methodological bias in the results. A joinpoint regression analysis was applied to the pooled data for all countries and ...
Trends in primary substance mentioned by patients entering treatment for illicit substance use in Belgium between 2012 and 2018
a regular way between 2012 and 2018 has been selected for trend analysis in order to avoid bias due to the increase in coverage. Analysis has been performed for subgroups according to gender (male/female), ...
Optimising the case-crossover design for use in shared exposure settings.
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Toon Braeye; N Hens Source: Epidemiol Infect, Volume 148 (2020) Keywords: bias Case-Control Studies Confounding Factors, Epidemiologic ...
Commentary to the recent study by Wang et al.
Publication Type: Non-peer reviewed scientific publication Authors: Toon Braeye Source: Stat Methods Med Res, Volume 29, Issue 7 (2020) Keywords: bias Cross-Over Studies Health Topics: Health and ...
Post-migration acquisition of HIV: Estimates from four European countries, 2007 to 2016.
acquisition of migrants diagnosed in four European countries using surveillance data.MethodsUsing CD4 + T-cell count trajectories modelled to account for seroconversion bias, we estimated infection year of ...
Insights into the association of ACEIs/ARBs use and COVID-19 prognosis: a multistate modelling study of nationwide hospital surveillance data from Belgium.
the potential exacerbation of COVID-19 severity and fatality. Previous studies addressing this question have used standard methods that may lead to biased estimates when analysing hospital data because ...
Unit Response and Costs in Web Versus Face-To-Face Data Collection: Comparison of Two Cross-sectional Health Surveys.
response than traditional modes, and this may increase bias in the measured indicators. OBJECTIVE: This research assesses the unit response and costs of a web study versus face-to-face (F2F) study. METHODS: ...
Estimation of country-level effects in cross-national survey research using multilevel modelling: The role of statistical power (Preprint)
power, relative parameter bias, relative standard error bias, and convergence rates. We pay special attention to statistical power — a key criteria that has been largely neglected in past research. The ...