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The Belgian physiotherapy reimbursement criteria for fall prevention fails in screening appropriately fall-prone community-dwelling older adults
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Ellis Rommers; Mirko Petrovic; Robby De Pauw; Anke Van Bladel; Dirk Cambier Source: Acta Clin Belg (2023) Keywords: Falls Falls risk older ...
Risk Factors Associated with Severe RSV Infection in Infants: What Is the Role of Viral Co-Infections?
infected by the age of 2. RSV symptoms are mostly mild and typically mimic a common cold in older children and adolescents, but younger children can develop severe lower respiratory tract disease, and ...
Factors underlying COVID-19 booster vaccine uptake among fully vaccinated adults in Belgium
0.12–0.18; multiple infections after, none before: OR =0.09, 95% CI 0.03–0.29). Older age and living in Flanders were positively associated with uptake in both boosters. Conclusions We report a high booster ...
Factors underlying COVID-19 booster vaccine uptake among fully vaccinated adults in Belgium
1 infection after PC: OR =0.29, 95% CI 0.27–0.31; multiple infections before and after; OR =0.15, 95% CI 0.12–0.18; multiple infections after, none before: OR =0.09, 95% CI 0.03–0.29). Older age and living in ...
Epidemiological, clinical and radiological characteristics of people with neurocysticercosis in Tanzania-A cross-sectional study.
more lesions than serologically positive people without epileptic seizures (10.5 [7-23]), and more often had active lesions. PWE diagnosed with NCC (n = 53) were older, and more commonly had focal onset ...
Epidemiology and age-related mortality in critically ill patients with intra-abdominal infection or sepsis: an international cohort study.
OBJECTIVE: To describe epidemiology and age-related mortality in critically ill older adults with intra-abdominal infection. METHODS: A secondary analysis was undertaken of a prospective, multi-national, ...
Organizing the health interview survey at the local level: design of a pilot study.
inviting 3137 individuals (response rate = 32.6%). Older adults were more likely to participate than younger adults, and women more than men. The final sample resembled the initial sample in terms of sex and ...
QALY losses for chronic diseases and its social distribution in the general population: results from the Belgian Health Interview Survey
problems. QALY losses were larger in women and in older individuals. Individuals with high SES had consistently lower QALY loss when facing a chronic disease compared to those with low SES. In both years, ...
Validity of self-reported air pollution annoyance to assess long-term exposure to air pollutants in Belgium
Health Interview Survey (BHIS) 2013 linked to GIS-modelled air pollution exposure at the residence place of participants older than 15 years (n = 9347). First, univariate linear regressions were performed ...
Association between polypharmacy and mortality in the community-dwelling older population: a data linkage study
Publication Type: Scientific poster, presentation or proceeding Authors: Johan Van der Heyden; Finaba Berete; Brecht Devleesschauwer; Karin De Ridder; Bruyère, Olivier; Françoise Renard; Rana Charafeddine Source: International Journal of Epidemiology, Vol ...