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Use of a Whole Genome Sequencing-based approach for Mycobacterium tuberculosis surveillance in Europe in 2017-2019: an ECDC pilot study.
countries and highlight the challenges and lessons learned to be considered for the future development of a WGS-based surveillance system. WGS and epidemiological data of patients with rifampicin (RR) and ...
Mixing mixed-mode designs in a national health interview survey: a pilot study to assess the impact on the self-administered questionnaire non-response.
SAQ but the overall SAQ unit response rate was low. Therefore, future research is recommended to further assess which type of SAQ design implemented after a F2F interview is the most beneficial to ...
Is the European Health Interview Survey online yet? Response and net sample composition of a web-based data collection.
the sole mode. In the context of future EHIS, the response rate and net sample composition of a web-only approach was tested. METHODS: A Belgian study with a target sample size of 1000 (age: 16-85) was ...
Public microbial resources centres: key hubs for FAIR microorganisms and genetic materials.
professional repositories remains low and the necessity to secure strains and genetic resources for future research must be emphasised. This review describes the unique position of mBRCs in microbiology and ...
Combining primary care surveillance and a meta-analysis to estimate the incidence of the clinical manifestations of Lyme borreliosis in Belgium, 2015–2017
As both over- and underestimation of different clinical LB manifestations remain possible due to characteristics of the primary surveillance systems and the disease itself, future studies to validate ...
Generating the evidence for risk reduction: a contribution to the future of food-based dietary guidelines.
disability-adjusted life years can be used for the various clinical outcomes and the overall results can be compared across the food groups. For future FBDG, we recommend to implement evidence from pairwise and NMA and ...
Eight years after an international workshop on myotonic dystrophy patient registries: case study of a global collaboration for a rare disease.
data items, and a number of additional items have been suggested in particular items on cognitive impact. CONCLUSIONS: The community should consider how to maximise this collective resource in future ...
Measuring disability: a systematic review of the validity and reliability of the Global Activity Limitations Indicator (GALI).
international). GALI proved, both in national and international data, to be a consistent predictor of future health outcomes both in terms of mortality and health care expenditure. As predictors of mortality, the ...
Letter to the editor: New metrics to monitor progress towards global HIV targets: using the estimated number of undiagnosed HIV-infected individuals as denominator.
that may sustain HIV transmission in the near future. Hence, the diagnosed fraction does not provide precise enough information to gauge testing services’ effectiveness. However, the estimated number of ...
Treatment for substance use disorders: the Belgian Treatment Demand Indicator registration protocol.
strengths and limitations of the register and foresees some future improvements. Health Topics: Illegale drugs Ziekten en gezondheid in kaart brengen Illicit drugs Drogues illégales Health and disease ...