Résultats de la recherche - 78 results

End-of-life medical treatment preference discussions and surrogate decision-maker appointments: evidence from Italy, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands

countries. GP s recorded the health and care characteristics in the last 3 months of life of patients who died non-suddenly. Prevalences were estimated and between country differences, and country-specific ...

Multiple HPV infections with high viral loads are associated with cervical lesions but do not differentiate grades of cervical abnormalities

cervical disease is important to generate hypotheses regarding its pathogenesis.We analyzed the prevalence of multiple HPV infections and their attribution to cervical disease in a screening population of ...

Awareness of general practitioners concerning cancer patients' preferences for place of death: Evidence from four European countries

Abstract: BACKGROUND: General Practitioners (GP s) are at the first level of contact in many European healthcare systems and they supposedly have a role in supporting cancer patients in achieving their ...

Genotoxicity of water extracts from hypoxis species

therefore important to test such plants or their extracts for potential effects on health. We therefore investigated the genotoxicity of a number of Hypoxis species. This is important as preparations from ...

Initiative for quality improvement and epidemiology among children and adolescents with diabetes (IQECAD)

s transmitted data on a random sample (N=976) of type 1 diabetic patients aged 0-18 years (representing about one third of all Belgian patients) to the Scientific Institute of Public Health (IPH) using an on-line ...

Older people dying with dementia: a nationwide study

without dementia. GP-patient conversations were less frequent among those with (45%) than those without (73%) dementia, and 11% of both groups had a proxy decision-maker. During the last week of life, ...

Surveillance of sexually transmitted infections among persons living with HIV.

results underline the importance of regular STI screening among HIV-positive persons, and show a particular sexual health problem among MSM. We estimate that the proportion of HIV-positive MSM acquiring an ...

Muticentrische studie "Verband tussen antibioticaconsumptie en microbile resistentie bij de individuele patiënt"

during 2005 were coupled with the antimicrobial consumption patterns (July 2004- December 2005) as provided by the pooled data of the seven Belgian health insurance funds (intermutualistic agency). ...

Standardised PCR-based molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis36793

IS6110 fingerprinting. Of all the patients, 30% were grouped based on strain clusters, suggesting a transmission index of 20%. An unsuspected outbreak entailing > or = 23 patients was evidenced by ...

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