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Monitoring HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis programmes in the EU/EEA
panel of clinical, research and community experts from different EU / EEA countries and organisations. The result of this consensus-building exercise is a monitoring tool that provides countries with ...
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 ...
Contribution of chronic conditions to disability in men and women in France
https://www.sciensano.be/en/biblio/contribution-chronic-conditions-disability-men-and-women-france-0
Results: Musculoskeletal diseases caused most disability for both men (10.1%, CI: 8.1–12.0) and women (16.0%, CI 13.6–18.2). The second contributor for men was heart diseases (5.7%, CI: 4.5–6.9%), and for ...
Contribution of chronic conditions to gender disparities in health expectancies in Belgium, 2001, 2004 and 2008
and disability to gender disparities in DFLE and LED. Results: Higher LE, DFLE and LED were observed for women compared with men in all years studied. A decrease in the gender gap in LE (2001: 5.9; ...
Point Prevalence Study of Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Use in Belgian Acute-Care Hospitals: Results of the ECDC PPS 2017
interval (CI): 26.8-31.1%) and 7.1% (95% CI: 6.1-8.3%), respectively. The objective of this report is to present the results of the second ECDC PPS conducted in 2017 in Belgian acute care hospitals. Methods: ...
National Surveillance of Infections acquired in Intensive Care Units: Annual Report 2015
intensive care unit report Surveillance Abstract: The annual upload of the national surveillance database to the TESS y system of ECDC allows comparison of results with other EU networks following the ECDC ...
Development of a dot-blot assay for the detection of mould-specific IgE in the Belgian population
“major sensitization” defined as the strongest response against a single mould species was calculated. Results Intra- and inter-assay variations were both below 20%, and the positivity threshold of the ...
Epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infection in Belgium: Report 2016
Clostridium difficile strains in Belgium, pointing to a large diversity of sources of transmission. The hypervirulent strain BR078 (UCL 3) was found in 42% of the hospitals (25% in 2014). Preliminary results ...
Resultaten van de 6e nationale campagne ter bevordering van de handhygiëne in ziekenhuizen, 2014-2015
point prevalence survey in Belgium executed in 2011, the prevalence rate of infected patients in Belgian acute care hospitals was 7.1% (95% confidence interval 6.1-8.3), resulting in an annual estimate of ...
Educational inequalities in leisure-time physical activity in 15 European countries.
(PRR s). The PRR measured the risk of showing a low level of LTPA for a given educational level, relative to the highest educational group. RESULTS: Within Europe, large cross-national differences in the ...