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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
All Belgian acute care hospitals were invited to participate in the ECDC PPS 2017. In addition, a representative random sample of hospitals was selected which received an individualized invitation to ...
Bordetella pertussis seroprevalence in Belgian adults aged 20-39 years, 201234005
diagnostic samples were collected randomly during the second semester of 2012 by the clinical chemistry laboratories of six participating Belgian centres, distributed equally between Flanders, Wallonia and ...
Efficacy of HPV-based screening for prevention of invasive cervical cancer: follow-up of four European randomised controlled trials.
Papillomavirus Infections Precancerous Conditions Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic Uterine Cervical Neoplasms Young adult Abstract: BACKGROUND: In four randomised trials, human papillomavirus (HPV)-based ...
Association between variables used in the field substitution and post-stratification adjustment in the Belgian health interview survey and non-response.
statistical sector as random effects. RESULTS: All investigated variables were significantly related with non-response. Especially households that could not be contacted differed substantially from those who ...
Accuracy of human papillomavirus testing on self-collected versus clinician-collected samples: a meta-analysis.
comparator tests as well as the relative accuracy of the index versus the comparator tests were pooled using bivariate normal models and random effect models. FINDINGS: We included data from 36 studies, which ...
Assessment of pfcrt 72-76 haplotypes eight years after chloroquine withdrawal in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.
resistance (CQR) in DRC and the second about the presence of the SVMNT haplotype, which would compromise the use of AQ as a partner drug for ACT. METHODS: A total of 213 thick blood films were randomly ...
Triage of women with minor abnormal cervical cytology: meta-analysis of the accuracy of an assay targeting messenger ribonucleic acid of 5 high-risk human papillomavirus types.
Hybrid Capture-2 (HC2) assay, which detects the DNA of 13 hrHPV types. A bivariate random-effect model that incorporated the intrinsic correlation between the true-positive and false-positive rates was ...
Interviewer variability in response rates in the Belgian Health Interview Survey
PROGRAM Questionnaire random random-effects RATES Ratio Ratios recruitment REFUSAL Register REGISTRIES Registry regression Regression model residence response response rate response rates result results ...
Epidemiology of multidrug-resistant microorganisms among nursing home residents in Belgium.
in Belgium. METHODS: A random stratified, national prevalence survey was conducted in nursing home residents who were screened for carriage of ESBLE, MRSA and VRE by multisite enriched culture. Characteristics ...
The origin of biased sequence depth in sequence-independent nucleic acid amplification and optimization for efficient massive parallel sequencing.
Independent Single Primer Amplification is one of the most widely used random amplification approaches in virology for sequencing template preparation. This technique relies on oligonucleotides consisting of ...