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Management of tick bites and suspicion of Lyme disease in Belgian primary care: compliance with national guidelines
an online questionnaire. Data from 2015 to 2020 were analyzed. Results: During the study period, 1618 cases were reported. In our sample, 47.9% patients were female and 52.1% male. 74.7% of tick bites ...
Listeria surveillance in Belgium
period 2000-2018, they comprise 47.1% and 36.2% of the cases, respectively. Notably, the incidence of serotype 4b remains rather stable, while the increase of serotype ½a is in relation with the increase ...
Premature mortality in Belgium in 1993-2009: leading causes, regional disparities and 15 years change
paper presents the leading causes and the regional disparities in premature mortality in 2008–2009 and the changes since 1993. Methods All deaths occurring in the periods 1993–1999 and 2003–2009, in ...
Using multiple measures to assess changes in social inequalities for breast cancer screening
Number 280 (2014) Keywords: breast cancer Health inequalities SCREENING Abstract: Objectives: To identify changes in social inequalities for mammograms uptake in Belgium over the period 1997–2008 using ...
National surveillance of nosocomial infections in neonatal intensive care units in Belgium (Neo-KISS)
Nosocomial infections Objective ON Patient patients period pilot Pneumonia prevention Primary bloodstream infection protocol Quality RATES report Respiratory result results risk Risk Factors Score study ...
Optimising the case-crossover design for use in shared exposure settings.
design, a case’s exposure during a risk period is compared to the case’s exposures at referent periods. The selection of referents for this self-controlled design is determined by the referent selection ...
Quantifying the burden of stillbirths before 28 weeks of completed gestational age in high-income countries: a population-based study of 19 European countries.
data for stillbirths by gestational age in these periods, or where data available were not comparable between 2004 and 2015. We also excluded those countries with fewer than 10 000 births per year ...
Prevalence of Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies and Potential Determinants among the Belgian Adult Population: Baseline Results of a Prospective Cohort Study.
collection. During this period, which coincided with the onset of the vaccination campaign, the seroprevalence in the population increased from 25.2% in March/April to 78.1% in July. Among the vaccinated there ...
Capturing respiratory syncytial virus season in Belgium using the influenza severe acute respiratory infection surveillance network, season 2018/19.
and complications.ConclusionWith only marginal modifications in the case definition and the period of surveillance, the Belgian SARI network would be able to substantially contribute to RSV surveillance ...
Benchmarking the nutrition-related commitments and practices of major French food companies.
addition supermarket flyers were collected over a 6-months period to assess the healthiness of product promotions. Correlations between commitments and performance metrics were assessed applying the ...