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The direct disease burden of COVID-19 in Belgium in 2020 and 2021
model, using Belgian seroprevalence, social contact, hospital, and intensive care admission data, (b) deaths were sourced from the national COVID-19 mortality surveillance, and (c) chronic post-acute ...
Evaluation of a point-of-care test for the diagnosis of Taenia solium neurocysticercosis in rural southern Tanzania: a diagnostic accuracy study.
METHODS: Patients with epileptic seizures or severe progressive headache were recruited consecutively from three hospitals in southern Tanzania. All patients were tested with the TS POC test. All patients ...
Assessing European national health information systems in peer review format: lessons learnt
Health, Volume 33, Issue 4, Number 584 (2023) Keywords: european continental ancestry group health care systems hospital information systems information systems negotiating World Health Organization ...
Whole-Genome Sequencing-Based Screening of MRSA in Patients and Healthcare Workers in Public Hospitals in Benin.
In this study, patients and healthcare workers (HCW s) from six public hospitals in Benin were screened for MRSA. Strains were identified as MRSA using conventional microbiological methods in Benin, ...
Direct impact of COVID-19 by estimating disability-adjusted life years at national level in France in 2020
post-acute consequences, in 28 days (baseline) up to 140 days, following the initial infection. METHODS: National mortality, COVID-19 screening, and hospital admission data were used to calculate DALY s based ...
European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance For Belgium (EARSBE, EARSBE-URI, EARSBE-AMR)- Data call 2022, including case and data definitions, and instructions for participating laboratories.
Number: r D/2023.14.440/24 Keywords: Acute care hospitals Antimicrobial resistance Bloodstream infection clinical laboratories multidrug resistance urinary tract infection Health Topics: Multidrug ...
Epidemiology of COVID-19 mortality in Belgium from wave 1 to wave 7 (March 2020 – 11 September 2022)
years old, males represented the highest fraction of COVID-19 deaths. Places of death Most of the COVID-19 deaths took place in hospitals (67.7%), followed by nursing homes (31.9%). During wave 1, there ...
Risk Factors Associated with Severe RSV Infection in Infants: What Is the Role of Viral Co-Infections?
until February 2020, we prospectively included children up to 2 years old presenting with an acute LRTI, both ambulatory and hospitalized. We collected clinical data and tested nasopharyngeal secretions ...
COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic infection and hospitalisation in Belgium, July 2021 to May 2022.
Chloé Wyndham-Thomas; Koen Blot; Lucy Catteau Source: Euro Surveill, Volume 28, Issue 26 (2023) Keywords: Belgium COVID-19 COVID-19 Vaccines Hospitalization Humans SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Efficacy Abstract: ...
Social inequalities and long-term health impact of COVID-19 in Belgium: protocol of the HELICON population data linkage
DISSEMINATION: This study involves human participants and was approved by Ghent University hospital ethics committee: reference B.U.N. 1432020000371 and the Belgian Information Security Committee: reference ...