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Longitudinal pharmacoepidemiological and health services research for substance users in treatment: protocol of the Belgian TDI-IMA linkage.
disorders and for a group of comparators. Methods: The TDI-database was linked to the IMA-database for the period between 01/0½008 and 31/12/2017, based on the national identification number of patients who ...
Haemolytic uremic syndrome surveillance in children less than 15 years in Belgium, 2009-2015.
the main findings of this surveillance from 2009 to 2015 and we describe an annual incidence of HUS. Methods: For each case of HUS < 15 years notified by the paediatricians, clinical, ...
Measuring disability: a systematic review of the validity and reliability of the Global Activity Limitations Indicator (GALI).
a substantial policy use within the EU and its Member States. The objective of current paper is to bring together what is known from published manuscripts on the validity and the reliability of GALI. Methods ...
The use of the global activity limitation Indicator and healthy life years by member states and the European Commission.
use in EU Member States and the European Commission. Methods: In March 2017, a questionnaire was sent to 28 Member states and the European Commission. The questionnaire inquired how the GALI and HLY are ...
Welfare-Adjusted Life Years (WALY): A novel metric of animal welfare that combines the impacts of impaired welfare and abbreviated lifespan.
veterinarians (n = 61) was conducted to elicit impaired welfare weights for 35 welfare impediments. Paired comparison was the primary method to elicit weights, whereas visual analogue scale and time trade-off ...
Comparison of SNP-based subtyping workflows for bacterial isolates using WGS data, applied to Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium and serotype 1,4,[5],12:i:.
Besides the technological advances which have pushed the approach forward, the last years have been marked by considerable evolution of the whole genome sequencing data analysis methods. Prior to ...
Changes in health in Belgium, 1990-2016: a benchmarking analysis based on the global burden of disease 2016 study
with other European countries. METHODS: We collected results of the Global Burden of Disease 2016 study through the GBD results and visualization tools. We benchmarked Belgian GBD results with the other ...
The effect of enteral tube feeding in cystic fibrosis: A registry based study.
(CF) remains equivocal. METHODS: A Belgian CF registry based, retrospective, longitudinal study, evaluated the pre- and post- ETF (n = 113) clinical evolution and compared each patient with 2 age, ...
Characteristics of the antibiotic regimen that affect antimicrobial resistance in urinary pathogens
is unclear. Methods In this retrospective multi-center cohort study, we assessed the impact of different variables on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in pathogens isolated from the urinary tract in older adults. ...
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 ...