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Psychological distress and online advice-seeking in times of COVID-19: vertical and horizontal equity of an e-mental health strategy
related to mental health needs and whether different population subgroups were equally likely to seek advice. Methods: A longitudinal, online survey was carried out in Belgium in April, June, and November ...
Women’s health report for Belgium: addressing the information gap
depressive symptoms (47%) than boys (31%). Conversely, boys were twice as likely to meet WHO recommendations on physical activity. Lessons This first report on women’s health in Belgium highlighted the need to ...
Retrospective surveillance of viable Bacillus cereus group contaminations in commercial food and feed vitamin B2 products sold on the Belgian market using whole-genome sequencing
on the Belgian market. In total, 75 collected product samples were cultured on a general medium and, in case of bacterial growth, two isolates per product sample were collected and characterized using ...
Trends in Hospital Antibacterial Consumption in Belgium (2017-2021): Evaluating the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Daily Doses (DDD s), and AMC was expressed in DDD s/1000 inhabitants/day (DID s), DDD s/1000 patient days and DDD s/1000 admissions. Linear regressions were employed to analyze 5-year trends for the ATC ...
EBoD-FL. Guidelines for mapping the environmental burden of disease in Flanders, 2023
health outcomes. The risk factors that were prioritised are those related to air quality, environmental noise and extreme temperature. In terms of outcomes, priority was given to all-cause mortality, ...
Protection conferred by an H5 DNA vaccine against highly pathogenic avian influenza in chickens: The effect of vaccination schedules.
a vaccination at 2 weeks of age, boosted at 4 weeks (2 doses), with or without adjuvant were characterized. The groups that received 1 dose with or without adjuvant as well as 2 doses with adjuvant demonstrated ...
Nationwide quality assurance of high-throughput diagnostic molecular testing during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: role of the Belgian National Reference Centre.
laboratories and government-supported high-throughput platforms were gradually deployed across Belgium. Consequently, the role of the NRC transitioned from a specialised testing laboratory to strengthening ...
Clinical performance of the novel full-genotyping OncoPredict HPV Quantitative Typing assay using the VALGENT framework.
reproducibility of the assay was assessed on a subpopulation, comprising 526 samples. The relative sensitivity and specificity for OncoPredict HPV QT vs GP5 +/6+- PCR- EIA were 1.01 (95% CI: 0.99-1.03) and 1.03 ...
Surveillance of Bloodstream Infections in Belgian Hospitals- Annual report 2023, Data up to and including 2022
and before. Forty–three percent of hospital-wide HABSI cases and even 66% of ICU- BSI cases were linked to an invasive device whether directly (central and other catheters) or indirectly (urinary catheter, ...
Surveillance of Bloodstream Infections in Belgian Hospitals- Annual report 2023, Data up to and including 2022
2019 and before. Forty–three percent of hospital-wide HABSI cases and even 66% of ICU- BSI cases were linked to an invasive device whether directly (central and other catheters) or indirectly (urinary ...