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Magnitude and determinants of excess total, age-specific and sex-specific all-cause mortality in 24 countries worldwide during 2020 and 2021: results on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic from the C-MOR project.
mortality in 2020 and 2021, respectively. CONCLUSION: This study provides evidence of substantial excess mortality in most countries investigated during the first 2 years of the pandemic and suggests that ...
Magnitude and determinants of excess total, age-specific and sex-specific all-cause mortality in 24 countries worldwide during 2020 and 2021: results on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic from the C-MOR project.
mortality in 2020 and 2021, respectively. CONCLUSION: This study provides evidence of substantial excess mortality in most countries investigated during the first 2 years of the pandemic and suggests that ...
Epidemiology and molecular typing of multidrug-resistant bacteria in tertiary hospitals and nursing homes in Flanders, Belgium
Coninck, Dieter; De Bruyne, Katrien; Mensaert, Klaas; Kluytmans-van den Bergh, Marjolein; Kluytmans, Jan; Goossens, Herman; Dhaeze, Wouter; Leroux-Roels, Isabel; on behalf of the i-4-1-Health Study Group ...
Sociodemographic and socioeconomic disparities in COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Belgium: a nationwide record linkage study.
Borre; Matthieu Billuart; Niko Speybroeck; Robby De Pauw; Veerle Stouten; Lucy Catteau; Pierre Hubin Source: J Epidemiol Community Health (2023) Abstract: BACKGROUND: Recent studies have identified ...
The landscape of drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum malaria in the Democratic Republic of Congo: a mapping systematic review
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), one of the most malaria-affected countries worldwide, is a potential hub for global drug-resistant malaria. This study aimed at summarizing and mapping surveys of malaria ...
Association between SARS-CoV-2 variants and post COVID-19 condition: findings from a longitudinal cohort study in the Belgian adult population
BACKGROUND: While many studies on the determinants of post- COVID-19 conditions (PCC) have been conducted, little is known about the relationship between SARS-CoV-2 variants and PCC. This study aimed to assess ...
A proposal for further developing fatigue-related post COVID-19 health states for burden of disease studies
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Grant M A Wyper; Scott A McDonald; Juanita A Haagsma; Brecht Devleesschauwer; Periklis Charalampous; Rishma Maini; Pierre Smith; Sara M Pires Source: Arch Public Health, Volume 81, Issue 1 (2023) ...
The Belgian physiotherapy reimbursement criteria for fall prevention fails in screening appropriately fall-prone community-dwelling older adults
appropriate to reflect on the current screening approach for preventive initiatives. The objective of this study was to determine whether the multifactorial algorithm proposed by Lusardi et al. (2017) exhibits ...
Factors influencing SARS-CoV-2 infection rate in Belgian nursing homes’ residents during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic
Cross-sectional study was conducted between April 8-May 15, 2020. Data collected included demographics, group category (i.e. staff or resident), symptom status and test result. We retrieved additional data: number ...
Genomic monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 variants using sentinel SARI hospital surveillance.
remained minor in Belgium. Omicron BA.3 was never detected in SARI surveillance. Timeliness could not be evaluated for B.1.1.7, being already major at the start of the study period. CONCLUSIONS: Genomic ...