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Local approach to attributable disease burden: a case study on air pollution and mortality in Belgium
estimates (95% confidence interval) 12,276 (6,695; 17,826) deaths for PM 2.5 and 7,944 (4,725; 11,181) for NO 2 in Belgium. For both pollutants, these national estimates never deviate more than 2% from those ...
Specialized mental healthcare use for common mental disorders and prescription of antidepressants before and during the COVID-19 pandemic among working-age refugees and Swedish-born individuals – a nationwide register-based study
administrative registers. We applied interrupted time series and estimated incidence rate ratios (IRR) of the incidence rates (IR) and their corresponding confidence intervals (CI) before and during the pandemic. ...
Residential greenness and pollen exposure across gestational trimesters in relation to preschool wheezing: Results for the PIPO birth cohort
pregnancy and per trimester. We used Generalized Estimated Equations to obtain odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI). To assess mediation by pollen we used a data duplication algorithm with ...
Accuracy of immunological tests on serum and urine for diagnosis of Taenia solium neurocysticercosis: A systematic review
localization and stage according to a developed confidence scale, and with selection of tests evaluated on a sufficiently high sample size. A QUADAS-2 risk of bias assessment was performed. After screening, 169 ...
Neurocysticercosis Prevalence and Characteristics in Communities of Sinda District in Zambia: A Cross-Sectional Study.
estimated to be 20.1% (95% confidence intervals [CI] 14.6-27.0%). In total, 233 participants received a CT examination (151 TS POC CC + , 82 TS POC CC-). Typical NCC lesions were present in 35/151 (23%) TS ...
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 ...
Personalized bacteriophage therapy outcomes for 100 consecutive cases: a multicentre, multinational, retrospective observational study.
were used (odds ratio = 0.3; 95% confidence interval = 0.127-0.749). In vivo selection of bacteriophage resistance and in vitro bacteriophage-antibiotic synergy were documented in 43.8% (7/16 patients) ...
Regulatory workshop on challenge strain development and GMP manufacture- A stakeholder meeting report.
standardised clinical endpoints, selection criteria, sharing of challenge agents, and addressing population heterogeneity concerning vaccine response and clinical course. The organisers are confident that the ...
Unravelling demographic and socioeconomic patterns of COVID-19 death and other causes of death: results of an individual-level analysis of exhaustive cause of death data in Belgium, 2020
OCOD. Methods Two complementary statistical methods were used. First, multivariable logistic regression models providing odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals were fitted for the three study outcomes. ...
Knowledge, perceptions and practices related to mosquitoes and mosquito-borne viruses: survey in Belgium, 2022
preventive measures upon observing mosquitoes in and around the house (cues to action, 5.3/7.0). Participants had limited confidence in finding information on preventive measures and in recognizing and ...