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Methods for meta-analysis and meta-regression of binomial data: concepts and tutorial with Stata command metapreg

perform a meta-analysis, network meta-analysis, and meta-regression of binomial proportions in Stata using binomial, logistic and logistic-normal models. First, we explain the rationale and concepts ...

Assessment of the clinical and analytical performance of three Seegene Allplex SARS-CoV-2 assays within the VALCOR framework.

SARS-CoV-2 dissemination across borders using population and wastewater surveillance. The anticipation by WHO and central health care policy entities such as the Center for Disease Control, EMA, and multiple ...

Multicenter interlaboratory study of routine systems for the susceptibility testing of temocillin using a challenge panel of multidrug-resistant strains.

strains. Forty-seven selected clinical isolates were blindly analyzed by 12 Belgian laboratories using VITEK ® 2 (n = 5) and BD Phoenix™ (n = 3) automated systems, ETEST ® gradient strip (n = 3), and disk (3 brands) ...

Can REALQUALITY RQ-HPV screen be considered as a clinically validated HPV test for use in cervical cancer screening?

considered as a clinically validated HPV test for use in cervical cancer screening?” Health Topics:  Health and disease monitoring Surveillance de la santé et des maladies Ziekten en gezondheid in kaart ...

Accuracy of HPV E6/E7 oncoprotein tests to detect high-grade cervical lesions: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis.

women showed a pooled sensitivity of 46.9% (95% CI: 30.6-63.9) with a specificity of 98.0% (95% CI: 96.8-98.7). CONCLUSIONS: The high specificity of oncoprotein tests supports its use for triaging ...

Global and regional estimates of genital human papillomavirus prevalence among men: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

factors for HPV infection that collected samples from anogenital sites and used PCR or hybrid capture 2 techniques for HPV DNA detection. Exclusion criteria were studies conducted among populations at ...

SCORE2-Diabetes: 10-year cardiovascular risk estimation in type 2 diabetes in Europe.

SCORE2-Diabetes was developed by extending SCORE2 algorithms using individual-participant data from four large-scale datasets comprising 229 460 participants (43 706 CVD events) with type 2 diabetes and without ...

Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of the diagnostic test accuracy of host and HPV DNA methylation in cervical cancer screening and management.

methylation cut-off thresholds, and accuracy in high-risk HPV positive women. Our reference standard will be histology. We will perform meta-analyses using Cochrane guidelines for diagnostic test accuracy. We ...

Evolution of patient characteristics and outcomes concerning diabetic foot ulcer care in Belgium between 2008 and 2020

cross-sectional way using Generalized Estimating Equations (SAS9.4).   Results: The number of people with a new DFU included were 985 in 2008 (20 MDFC s) and increased to 1.579 in 2020 (35 MDFC s). Patients became ...

Validation of the Flemish-Dutch diabetic foot ulcer scale short form (DFS-SF) questionnaire for diabetic foot ulcers

comparisons were conducted to examine construct validity. Correlation with EQ-5D-5L was used to test criterion validity. The full study protocol has been published earlier (Rezaie et al. ...

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