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Epidemiology of multidrug-resistant microorganisms among nursing home residents in Belgium.

in Belgium. METHODS: A random stratified, national prevalence survey was conducted in nursing home residents who were screened for carriage of ESBLE, MRSA and VRE by multisite enriched culture. Characteristics ...

Environmental and genomic factors as well as interventions influencing smoking cessation: a systematic review of reviews and a proposed working model.

incorporating the different factors influencing SC were our main objectives. METHODS: Two systematic reviews were conducted using articles in English from the Cochrane library, PubMed and HuGENet from January ...

Palliative care service use in four European countries: a cross-national retrospective study via representative networks of general practitioners.

study is to examine, in four European countries, the number of people receiving palliative care in the last three months of life and the factors associated with receiving palliative care. METHODS ...

Evaluation of a screening system for obesogenic compounds: screening of endocrine disrupting compounds and evaluation of the PPAR dependency of the effect.

effects. This threshold based method was combined with the well described strictly standardized mean difference (SSMD) method for classification of non-, weak- or strong obesogenic compounds. In the next ...

The origin of biased sequence depth in sequence-independent nucleic acid amplification and optimization for efficient massive parallel sequencing.

a 3’ random part used to prime complementary DNA synthesis and a 5’ defined tag sequence for subsequent amplification. Recently, this amplification method was combined with next generation sequencing to ...

In vitro and in vivo infectious potential of coxiella burnetii: a study on Belgian livestock isolates.

in the Netherlands during the 2007-2010 outbreaks. Infective doses were established with ethidium monoazide- PCR for the first time here applied to C. burnetii. This method allowed for the preparation ...

Intake and dietary sources of haem and non-haem iron among European adolescents and their association with iron status and different lifestyle and socio-economic factors.

sources and; (2) to evaluate the relation of iron intake and status in European adolescents. SUBJECTS / METHODS: Two non-consecutive 24-h recalls were completed by a computerised tool. The socio-demographic ...

MLVA as a tool for public health surveillance of human Salmonella Typhimurium: prospective study in Belgium and evaluation of MLVA loci stability.

demonstrates that MLVA improves public health surveillance of S. Typhimurium. However, the 5-loci MLVA should be complemented with other subtyping methods for investigation of possible outbreaks with frequent ...

Routinely-collected general practice data from the electronic patient record and general practitioner active electronic questioning method: A comparative study

practitioners GP healthcare Hypertension improve index INFORMATION IS IT journal Mass Mass index method methods Network networks observed Paper parameters past Patient patients Practice practitioner Practitioners ...

End-of-life communication: a retrospective survey of representative general practitioner networks in four countries

method methods Netherlands Network networks objectives OCCUPATIONAL Occupational Health older ON Patient patients practitioner prevalence PRIORITIES Priority public result results SOCIAL Spain study survey ...

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