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Trends of Clostridioides difficile infections in Belgian hospitals, between 2010 and 2022
observed. In 2022, a significant increase in HA- CDI incidence was reported of 1.31 (95% CI 1.23 – 1.39) to 1.62 (95% CI 1.53 – 1.71), and for all CDI this was from 2.41 (95% CI 2.30 – 2.51) to 2.78 (95% CI ...
Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Use in Belgian Acute Care Hospitals: Results of the 2022 ECDC Point Prevalence Survey
A total of 56 acute care hospital sites participated, encompassing 10,142 patients. The 2022 survey revealed that 9.2% (95% confidence interval (CI): 8.7-9.8%) of patients had at least one HAI. This ...
Antimicrobial Use in Belgian Acute Care Hospitals: Results of the 2022 ECDC Point Prevalence Survey
healthcare-associated infections (HAI s) and antimicrobial use (AU) in European acute care hospitals. In 2017, a crude prevalence of 28.1% (95% CI 27.3-29.0%) of inpatients receiving at least one antimicrobial was ...
Thirty years of epidemiological surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Belgian hospitals: are we able to keep on lowering the curve?
history (past 12 months). Results The incidence of MRSA peaked in 2005 (6.3 cases per 1000 admissions; Figure 1), but shows a decreasing trend ever since(2005-2022 incidence rate ratio (IRR)=0.915, 95% CI ...
Prevalence of Healthcare-Associated Infections in Belgian Acute Care Hospitals in 2022: Results of ECDC Point Prevalence Survey
7 secondary and 3 tertiary hospitals, countrywide participation 33.9%) participated, encompassing 10,142 patients. Overall, 9.2% (95% CI: 8.7-9.8) of patients had at least one HAI. Predominant infections ...
Factors underlying COVID-19 booster vaccine uptake among fully vaccinated adults in Belgium
multiple infections (COVID-naive reference, minimum 1 infection before PC: OR =0.73, 95% CI 0.67-0.79, 1 infection after PC: OR =0.29, 95% CI 0.27–0.31; multiple infections before and after; OR =0.15, 95% CI ...
Validation of the Flemish-Dutch Lower Extremity Functional Scale (LEFS) questionnaire for diabetic foot ulcers
infection (60,6%). ICC of the LEFS questionnaire was 0.85 (95% CI 0.75-0.91). Cronbach’s alpha equaled 0.95. Agreement was 4.55. No floor or ceiling effect was observed. Only 1 of the 6 predefined hypotheses ...
Factors underlying COVID-19 booster vaccine uptake among fully vaccinated adults in Belgium
with no infection, especially when the infection occurred after completion of PC and with multiple infections (COVID-naive reference, minimum 1 infection before PC: OR =0.73, 95% CI 0.67-0.79, ...
Homologous versus heterologous prime-boost COVID-19 vaccination: impact on clinical severity of Omicron among hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Belgium
severe COVID-19 (RD =-0.04, 95% CI [-0.10–0.02]), ICU transfer (RD =-0.03, 95% CI [-0.07–0.02]), or inhospital mortality (RD =0.00, 95% CI [-0.05–0.04]) was found between homologous versus heterologous ...
Estimates of people who injected drugs within the last 12 months in Belgium- presentation
model, we reached an estimated total population of adult PWID in Brussels of 703 (95 % CI 538–935), which means an estimated population prevalence of 0.8 PWID per 1000 adult inhabitants (95 % CI 0.6–1.0) ...