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Point Prevalence Study of Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Use in Belgian Acute-Care Hospitals: Results of the ECDC PPS 2017
day per ward, within a maximum period of 2 to 3 weeks for each hospital. Results: In total, 47 acute care hospital sites (33 mergers, of which 22 primary, 9 secondary and 2 tertiary hospitals, ...
HIV testing within general practices in Europe: a mixed-methods systematic review.
been synthesised in a systematic review adhering to the PRISMA guidelines. METHODS: The databases PubMed, Scopus and Embase were searched for the period 2006-2017. Two authors judged independently on ...
Global burden of late-stage chronic kidney disease resulting from dietary exposure to cadmium, 2015
Cadmium-related incidence rate, calculated as the change in the prevalence during a one-year period, were used to compute the mortality and DALY in all WHO regions. It is estimated that dietary cadmium would result ...
Clonal Spread of Candida glabrata Bloodstream Isolates and Fluconazole Resistance Affected by Prolonged Exposure: a 12-Year Single-Center Study in Belgium.
of fluconazole resistance. In the present study, the acquisition of antifungal resistance and potential clonal spread of were explored at a single center over a 12-year period by analyzing 187 ...
Utilization of gabapentin by people in treatment for substance use disorders in Belgium (2011-2014): a cross-sectional study.
gabapentin purchases in the period between 2008 and 2014 for both populations were compared. Quantification of the amount of gabapentin between two consecutive purchases was used as a proxy for ...
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 ...
Short-term effects of nitrogen dioxide on hospital admissions for cardiovascular disease in Wallonia, Belgium.
cardiovascular health in Wallonia for the period 2008-2011. This study also seeks to evaluate the effects of age, gender, season and temperature on this association. The effect of the delay between exposure and ...
European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network (EARS-Net Belgium)- Report 2017 (Data up to and including 2016)
0.4% of the samples were non-susceptible to penicillins or to third-generation cephalosporins, and 0.2% was non-susceptible to fluoroquinolones. Over the period 2012-2016, we observed a strong decreasing ...
Characteristics of the antibiotic regimen that affect antimicrobial resistance in urinary pathogens
with lower probabilities of AMR, provided that the number of preceding prescriptions is not extremely high (≥10 during the 1.5 year observation period; 93% of 5650 included patients). Health Topics: ...
Care Infections & Antibiotic Resistance in Belgium
and long-term care facilities that suffer from difficult to treat bacteria in the form of an outbreak support team (MDRO – OST; Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms- Outbreak Support Team). In the period ...