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Respi-Radar: a tool to monitor respiratory infections, Belgium, winter season 2023/24.
infections. Linking specific measures to each risk level was less straightforward. The experience gained using the Respi-Radar tool was key in determining an appropriate approach to assess and manage the ...
Comparing the applicability of de facto population markers for spatiotemporal trend analysis in wastewater-based epidemiology
potential as population markers. However, their applicability is influenced by sociodemographic factors and thus site-specific. Overall, their value lies in providing complementary information for ...
Assessing the Differences in Outpatient Antibiotic Consumption Between Reimbursement and Sales Data in Belgium, 2013-2022
due to a 2018 governmental change in reimbursement criteria aimed at reducing their consumption. This highlights the importance of incorporating sales data for accurate assessments in this specific ...
Outpatient Antibiotic Consumption Trends in Belgium: A Comparative Analysis of Reimbursement and Sales Data, 2013-2022
change in reimbursement criteria aimed at reducing their consumption. This highlights the importance of incorporating sales data for accurate assessments in this specific category. The synergistic use of ...
Possible impact of culture-independent diagnostic techniques on surveillance of gastrointestinal pathogens in Belgium
specificities, and ultimately improve patient care. However, the absence of clinical isolates may hamper epidemiological investigations and public health surveillance. In Belgium, CIDT for gastrointestinal ...
Respi Radar, a tool to monitor respiratory infections
reference laboratories which provided pathogen-specific information. Based on the Respi-Radar tool, the RAG regularly evaluated the epidemiological situation of respiratory infections between September 2023 ...
Health information system assessments: Opportunities for international collaboration
led to the revision of the Support Tool in 2021 to include a more expanded and modular approach which enables HIS assessments to opt to focus on specific aspects. To date, a sustainable European health ...
Lifestyle predictors of colorectal cancer in European populations: a systematic review
model-specific lifestyle predictors were visualised using forest plots. RESULTS: A total of 21 risk prediction models for CRC (reported in 16 studies) were eligible, of which 11 were validated in a European adult ...
Clinical performance of the novel full-genotyping OncoPredict HPV Quantitative Typing assay using the VALGENT framework.
Infections Reproducibility of Results Sensitivity and Specificity Uterine Cervical Dysplasia Uterine Cervical Neoplasms Young adult Abstract: Clinical validation of human papillomavirus (HPV) assays according ...
The overweight epidemic increasingly hits children of lower educated parents in Belgium
Since the BMI (kg/m²) in children is instable, age/sex-specific cutoff points are used to estimate the weighted prevalence (95% confidence interval) of self-reported overweight (including obesity), by SES ...