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Healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use in Belgian acute care hospitals: Comparison of the 2017 and 2022 point prevalence survey results

the Belgian Presidency, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control / Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium (2024) Keywords: healthcare associated infections Health Topics:  Maladies nosocomiales ...

Prevalence of Healthcare-Associated Infections in Belgian Acute Care Hospitals in 2022: Results of ECDC Point Prevalence Survey

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) point prevalence survey (PPS) reported a 5.9% HAI prevalence in European acute care hospitals, with Belgium showing a higher rate at 7.3%. In 2022, ...

Check of APpropriaTeness of Antimicrobial therapy In Nursing homes (CAPTAIN): a point prevalence study in Belgium

observational, point prevalence study, researchers documented prevalence and identified potentially inappropriate prescriptions (PIP s) by evaluating accordance of AMT with national guidelines. The severity of ...

Using priorities between human and livestock bacterial antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to identify data gaps in livestock AMR surveillance

Source: BMC Infectious Diseases, Volume 24, Issue 1 (2024) Keywords: Antimicrobial resistance data gaps Livestock Surveillance Abstract: Background Bacterial antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global ...

Attributing Ethiopian animal health losses to high-level causes using expert elicitation

Prev Vet Med, Volume 221 (2023) Keywords: Animal health economics Burden of animal disease Ethiopia Livestock Abstract: The Global Burden of Animal Diseases programme is currently working to estimate the ...

Interim analysis of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against hospitalisation and death using electronic health records in six European countries

Starrfelt; Toon Braeye; Izaak Van Evercooren; Joris Van Loenhout; Ala'a AlKerwi; Susanne Schmitz Source: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden, p.36 (2023) ISBN: ...

Improve the management of cancer-related cognitive impairment in clinical settings: a European Delphi study.

experts in CRCI. The Delphi method was used: experts rated the clinical relevancy of recommendations on a 9-point Likert scale in three rounds. A recommendation was accepted if all votes were between 7 and ...

BY-COVID Educational Toolkit

Introduction The aim of the BY- COVID  project is to make infectious disease data accessible to scientists in laboratories, but also to anyone likely to use them, such as medical staff in hospitals or ...

Integrating human papillomavirus testing as a point-of care service using GeneXpert platforms: Findings and lessons from a Kenyan pilot study (2019-2020).

Infections Pilot Projects Point-of-Care Systems Uterine Cervical Neoplasms Abstract: BACKGROUND: Globally, cervical cancer is a major public health problem, with about 604,000 new cases and over 340,000 deaths ...

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