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Prevalence of Healthcare-Associated Infections in Belgian Acute Care Hospitals in 2022: Results of ECDC Point Prevalence Survey
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) point prevalence survey (PPS) reported a 5.9% HAI prevalence in European acute care hospitals, with Belgium showing a higher rate at 7.3%. In 2022, ...
Challenges in Chlamydial Serology: Insights from a Belgian and a Dutch Population Cohort.
a screening initiative) comprised women from the Netherlands (NL) with past exposure to, while the second cohort (n = 44; samples collected in 2018 in a health examination survey) consisted of Belgian citizens ...
Epidemiology and molecular typing of multidrug-resistant bacteria in tertiary hospitals and nursing homes in Flanders, Belgium
Coninck, Dieter; De Bruyne, Katrien; Mensaert, Klaas; Kluytmans-van den Bergh, Marjolein; Kluytmans, Jan; Goossens, Herman; Dhaeze, Wouter; Leroux-Roels, Isabel; on behalf of the i-4-1-Health Study Group ...
Social integration of people with non-psychotic mental illness over the last 2 decades: the widening gap in the adult population in Belgium
general population without MI between 1997 and 2018 in Belgium. Methods: Data on the general adult population were retrieved from the Belgian Health Interview Survey in six cross-sectional waves from 1997 ...
Prevalence of drug use before and during imprisonment in seven European countries (2014–2018)
2018 with a model European Questionnaire on Drug Use among people in prison. A total of 12,918 people living in prison filled in the survey. People in prison report higher level of drug use when compared ...
Psychosocial factors associated with health-related quality of life in patients with chronic disease: Results of a cross-sectional survey
Source: Chronic Illn, Volume 19, Issue 4, Number 757 (2023) Keywords: Chronic disease EQ-5D health-related quality of life illness perception multimorbidity psychosocial factors sense of coherence Abstract: ...
Knowledge, perceptions and practices related to mosquitoes and mosquito-borne viruses: survey in Belgium, 2022
to guide future health promotion activities. Methods In this cross-sectional study, we conducted an online survey among adults recruited via social media (One Health PACT ’s MosquitoWise survey using ...
Urine concentrations of Arsenic and its species in adolescents from Wallonia (Belgium).
inorganic arsenic) in a sample of 281 adolescents (aged 12-19y) for the BMH- WAL survey (2019-2020) using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. The participants completed self-administered ...
Linking health survey data with health insurance data: methodology, challenges, opportunities and recommendations for public health research. An experience from the HISlink project in Belgium
Heyden Source: Arch Public Health, Volume 81, Issue 1 (2023) Keywords: Data linkage Health administrative insurance data Health claims data health interview surveys Record linkage Abstract: In recent ...
The landscape of drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum malaria in the Democratic Republic of Congo: a mapping systematic review
Source: Trop Med Health, Volume 51, Issue 1 (2023) Keywords: Antimalarial drug resistance Democratic Republic of Congo Malaria Molecular markers of drug resistance mutations Abstract: CONTEXT: The ...