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Monitoring of human coronaviruses in Belgian primary care and hospitals, 2015-20: a surveillance study.
elucidate the epidemiology and burden of disease of seasonal hCoVs OC43, NL63, and 229E in patients in primary care and hospitals in Belgium between 2015 and 2020. Methods: We retrospectively analysed data ...
Establishing an ad hoc COVID-19 mortality surveillance during the first epidemic wave in Belgium, 1 March to 21 June 2020
hospitals, long-term care facilities (LTCF) and the community. Belgium adopted broad inclusion criteria for the COVID-19 death notifications, also including possible cases, resulting in a robust correlation ...
Urban environment and mental health: the NAMED project, protocol for a mixed-method study
committee from University Hospital of Antwerp respectively approved quantitative database merging and qualitative interviewing. We will share project results with a wide audience including the scientific ...
European antimicrobial resistance surveillance for Belgium (EARS-BE) 2019 – description of main findings.
D/2021/14.440/5. Keywords: Antimicrobial resistance clinical laboratory european center for disease control general hospital Global antimicrobial resistance and use surveillance system Healthcare-associated ...
Assessing polypharmacy in the older population: Comparison of a self‐reported and prescription based method
vary substantially by source of outcome indicator, but restrictions in activities of daily living (ADL), living in an institution and a history of a hospital admission was associated with self-reported ...
Estimating the direct Covid-19 disability-adjusted life years impact on the Malta population for the first full year
a population level. Methods Mortality and weekly hospital admission data were used to calculate DALY s, based on the European Burden of Disease Network consensus Covid-19 model. Covid-19 infection duration of 14 days ...
Conducting national burden of disease studies in small countries in Europe– a feasible challenge?
conditions. These sources include disease-specific registers, hospital discharge data, primary health care data and epidemiological studies, provided by different organisations such as health directorates, ...
Operational characteristics of an antibody detecting point of care test for Taenia solium infections in a community and hospital setting
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Mubanga, Chishimba; Kabemba E. Mwape; Isaac K. Phiri; Trevisan, Chiara; Kabululu, Mwemezi; Gideon Zulu; Inge Van Damme; Schmidt, Veronika; Dorny, Pierre; Gabriël, Sarah Source: BMC Infectious Dis ...
Conceptual causal framework to assess the effect of SARS-CoV-2 variants on COVID-19 disease severity among hospitalized patients
allows to study the effect of SARS-CoV-2 variants on COVID-19 disease severity among hospitalized patients. METHODS: A causal model is defined and visualized using a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG), in which ...
Trial Design of a Prospective Multicenter Diagnostic Accuracy Study of a Point-of-Care Test for the Detection of Taenia solium Taeniosis and Neurocysticercosis in Hospital-Based Settings in Tanzania
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Trevisan, Chiara; Inge Van Damme; Bernard Ngowi; Schmidt, Veronika; Dominik Stelzle; Karen Møller; Kabululu, Mwemezi; Charles Makasi; Magnussen, Pascal; Bottieau, Emmanuel; Abatih, Emmanuel; Mari ...