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The COVID-19 pandemic minimally interfered with delivery of care and did not result in worse outcomes of diabetic foot ulcers in Belgium

major amputation or death as first event were assessed by Cox proportional hazards regression. Results:  Although overall offloading rates for plantar DFU did not differ, patients that presented during ...

Activity-Based Detection and Bioanalytical Confirmation of a Fatal Carfentanil Intoxication.

department admissions and deaths. Here, we report on the application of a novel opioid activity reporter assay and a sensitive bioanalytical assay in the context of a fatal carfentanil intoxication, revealing ...

The use of the permanent sample (eps) to study the returnto- work after cancer. Challenges and opportunities for research

We observe during a five-year period the socio-professional status (inability, disability, unemployment or death) of 645 workers identified in the permanent sample (EPS), having had an oncological ...

Palliative care service use by older people: Time trends from a mortality follow-back study between 2005 and 2014.

was initiated. RESULTS: General practitioners identified 5344 deaths. Overall, palliative care service use increased from 39% in 2005 to 63% in 2014 (p < 0.001). The use of a reference person for palliative ...

End-of-life care for people dying with dementia in general practice in Belgium, Italy and Spain: A cross-sectional, retrospective study.

of care, place of death, treatment aims, use of specialized palliative care and communication with general practitioners (GP s). METHODS: Cross-sectional retrospective survey was carried out of ...

Management and 6-month outcome of patients with diabetic foot problems: results from a nationwide quality improvement initiative between 2005 and 2014

with a modified methodology, had increasing rates of participation and data completeness. In total, 5,510 episodes were sampled between 2005 and 2014 (5,407 DFU s and 183 acute Charcot feet). Median age ...

Negative determinants of diabetic foot ulcer healing: 6-month follow-up of a large multicentre cohort

death, whichever occurred first. Cumulative incidence functions were studied and Cox proportional hazards regression was used to identify determinants of healing by using a forward selection method, taking ...

Trends in cervical cancer incidence and mortality in the Baltic countries, Bulgaria and Romania.

were obtained from the national cancer registries. Data on population and number of deaths from uterine cancers were extracted from the World Health Organization mortality database. Mortality rates were ...

Description of cervical cancer mortality in Belgium using Bayesian age-period-cohort models.

from the WHO mortality database together with population data for Belgium and the Netherlands. Different ICD (International Classification of Diseases) were used over time for death cause certification. ...

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