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The use of the global activity limitation Indicator and healthy life years by member states and the European Commission
measure: the Global Activity Limitation Indicator (GALI). Twelve years after its implementation, this study aims to assess its current use in EU Member States and the European Commission. Methods: In March ...
National public health system responses to diabetes and other important noncommunicable diseasesNationale Public-Health-Maßnahmen für Diabetes und andere wichtige nichtübertragbare Krankheiten
stakeholders in the development process to facilitate its acceptance and implementation. Furthermore, the effective translation of prevention measures into real-world settings requires data from surveillance ...
Multinomial additive hazard model to assess the disability burden using cross-sectional data.
attribution method to multinomial responses, since disability is often measured as a multicategory variable in most surveys, representing different severity levels. The R function constrOptim is used to ...
Measurement equivalence of the Belgian health interview auto-questionnaire: paper-based versus web-based mode.
Surveys and Questionnaires Abstract: Before organizing mixed-mode data collection for the self-administered questionnaire of the Belgian Health Interview Survey, measurement effects between the ...
Assessing the sensitivity and representativeness of the Belgian Sentinel Network of Laboratories using test reimbursement data.
burden of disease and to inform preventive measures. It should however be reinforced to allow to be used as an alert system at provincial level. Health Topics: Health and disease monitoring Surveillance ...
Late presentation to HIV testing is overestimated when based on the consensus definition.
count is not uncommon in recent infections. The objective of this study was to investigate how measurements of late presentation change if the clinical stage at the time of diagnosis is taken ...
A urinary protein biomarkers panel to discriminate progressive from non-progressive chronic kidney disease using a targeted proteomics method
Follow general general population General-population Group High risk HIGH-RISK hospital INFORMATION IS Kidney Literature Marker Markers Mass measurement method methods MODEL models objectives ON Patient ...
Using multiple measures to assess changes in social inequalities for breast cancer screening
socio-economic position was defined by the educational level. Inequalities were measured both with pairwise measures comparing extreme educational groups (prevalence difference and prevalence ratio), and with ...
National surveillance of nosocomial infections in neonatal intensive care units in Belgium (Neo-KISS)
patient days) were calculated. To standardize the infectious risk for each NICU, potential confounding factors and additional risk factors were measured and the (adjusted) standardized infection rates (SIR) ...