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Healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use in Belgian nursing homes: results of three point prevalence surveys between 2010 and 2016
healthcare-associated infections (HAI s) and antimicrobial use in nursing homes (NH s) by participating in the European point prevalence surveys (PPS s) organised in long-term care facilities (HALT surveys). We present ...
Nursing home residents with suspected urinary tract infections: a diagnostic accuracy study
al., i.e. criteria based upon the presence of a set of signs/symptoms and a positive urine culture. Results: Eleven NH s and 1 263 residents participated. Sixteen out of 137 recorded UTI suspicions were ...
Post COVID-19 condition and its physical, mental and social implications: protocol of a 2-year longitudinal cohort study in the Belgian adult population
that aims to assess the initial health status of the participants and their status during the acute phase of the illness, and a follow-up questionnaire that is sent every three months after participants ...
Variation in smoking attributable all-cause mortality across municipalities in Belgium, 2018: application of a Bayesian approach for small area estimations
smoking prevalence in each Belgian municipality using BHIS and calculate smoking attributable mortality at municipality level. Methods Data of participants aged 15 + on smoking behavior, age, gender, ...
Air pollution in association with mental and self-rated health and the mediating effect of physical activity
activity in this association. Methods In 2008, 2013 and 2018 the Belgian Health Interview Survey (BHIS) enrolled 16,455 participants who completed following mental health dimensions: psychological distress, ...
Predictors of nursing home admission in the older population in Belgium: a longitudinal follow-up of health interview survey participants
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Finaba Berete; Stefaan Demarest; Rana Charafeddine; Karin De Ridder; Johan Vanoverloop; Herman Van Oyen; Bruyère, Olivier; Johan Van der Heyden Source: BMC Geriatrics, Volume 22, Issue 1 (2022) K ...
VALCOR: a protocol for the validation of SARS-corona virus-2 assays
a reference comparator assay) to participating laboratories for testing with a SARS-CoV-2 index assay that requires evaluation. Discussion: VALCOR provides a harmonised and standard framework to benchmark the ...
Prioritizing health information for national health reporting- a Delphi study of the Joint Action on Health Information (InfAct).
first round, information about these processes was gathered in semi-structured questions; in the second round, participants were asked to rank the identified approaches for desirability and feasibility. ...
Market concentration and the healthiness of packaged food and non-alcoholic beverage sales across the European single market
market. Participants: The twenty-seven European single market member states for which Euromonitor sales data were available at the most fine-grained Euromonitor packaged food and non-alcoholic beverage ...
Validity of self-reported air pollution annoyance to assess long-term exposure to air pollutants in Belgium
survey participants through Geographical Information Systems (GIS). However, obtaining georeferenced address data from national registries requires a long and cumbersome administrative procedure, since ...