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How to Deal with Uninformed and Poorly Informed Opinions of Citizens? A Critical Approach to Online Public Engagement
citizens sometimes prevails over an open and honest exchange. Because of this overemphasis on education, researchers may more easily label lay opinions invalid if uninformed or based on distorted beliefs. ...
Methods for meta-analysis and meta-regression of binomial data: concepts and tutorial with Stata command metapreg
generic methods for meta-analysis of proportions based on the approximation to the normal distribution continue to dominate. Methods We developed metapreg, a tool with advanced statistical procedures to ...
Sociodemographic and socioeconomic disparities in COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Belgium: a nationwide record linkage study.
important social inequalities in SARS-CoV-2 infections and related COVID-19 outcomes in the Belgian population. The aim of our study was to investigate the sociodemographic and socioeconomic characteristics ...
Psychosocial factors associated with health-related quality of life in patients with chronic disease: Results of a cross-sectional survey
with one or more chronic diseases based on cross-sectional data collected in Flanders (Belgium). METHODS: Cross-sectional data on 544 chronically ill patients were analysed. Multiple linear regression ...
HPV testing in Polish population-based cervical cancer screening programme (HIPPO project)-study protocol of a randomised healthcare policy trial.
HIPPO project (HPV testing In Polish PO pulation-based cervical cancer screening program) is a randomised health services study nested in the OCCSP in Poland. The project will randomise 33 000 women aged ...
Federated causal inference based on real-world observational data sources: application to a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine effectiveness assessmentAbstractIntroductionMethodsResultsConclusions
individuals based on confounders identified in the causal model and a survival analysis within the matched population. Results The conceptual and instrumental phase of the proposed methodological framework was ...
Aetiological and prognostic roles of frailty, multimorbidity and socioeconomic characteristics in the development of SARS-CoV-2 health outcomes: protocol for systematic reviews of population-based studies
representative samples.Applying population-based approach, the systematic reviews will have two objectives: (1) to evaluate the aetiological roles of frailty, multimorbidity and socioeconomic status on SARS-CoV-2 ...
Global and regional estimates of genital human papillomavirus prevalence among men: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
1, 2022. Inclusion criteria were population-based surveys in men aged 15 years or older or HPV prevalence studies with a sample size of at least 50 men with no HPV-related pathology or known risk ...
Assessing European national health information systems in peer review format: lessons learnt
their understanding of what a population-based HIS is; they strengthened their understanding of how a HIS operates in different countries; they learnt how to carry out a HIS assessment; they strengthened ...
Time series modelling for wastewater-based epidemiology of COVID-19: A nationwide study in 40 wastewater treatment plants of Belgium, February 2021 to June 2022
Environment, Volume 899 (2023) Keywords: ARIMA COVID-19 Flow rate PMMoV wastewater surveillance Abstract: Background: Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has been implemented to monitor surges of COVID-19. Yet, ...