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Antimicrobial Use in Belgian Acute Care Hospitals: Results of the 2022 ECDC Point Prevalence Survey
All patients present in surveyed wards at 8 a.m. on the PPS day and not discharged at that time were included. Infection prevention and control teams collected comprehensive data on hospitals, wards, ...
NATIONAL SURVEILLANCE OF SARS-COV-2 IN WASTEWATER- How does WBE contribute to the global epidemiologic assessment in Belgium? (September 2020 – 2024)
tool, especially at the time where the testing capacity was high. Also, a preceding character was evidenced in several areas and is discussed in a dedicated section of the present report. Finally, results ...
A One-Health approach to monitoring antimicrobial consumption in Belgium 2012-2021
were performed to assess the correlation between AMC and time. Results Significant reductions in total AMC (mg/kg estimated biomass) were observed over time in both humans and animals. Notably, in ...
Prevalence of Healthcare-Associated Infections in Belgian Acute Care Hospitals in 2022: Results of ECDC Point Prevalence Survey
level. All patients present in the surveyed wards at 8 a.m. on the PPS day and not discharged at that time, were included. Modifications from the 2017 protocol included the incorporation of infection ...
A new data collection system for Epilabo: the network of sentinel laboratories
Background The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of having a robust, digital system for timely data collection of laboratory test results at the national level in the context of surveillance of ...
Resilient health systems: harnessing health information to improve population health
general population. Especially in times of crisis, the availability and trustworthiness of these data is of utmost importance. The COVID-19 pandemic showed that within a substantial number of European ...
Healthy Data, an online citizen consultation about health data reuse – intermediate report
allow for citizens to know in real time what data is being used, who it is being used by, how they are using it and what their intentions are. At this higher level of complexity and involvement, they ...
RNA-based drug susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
microbes and vectors, Issue Institute Pasteur, Paris, France (2018) Keywords: Mycobacterium tuberculosis; antimicrobial resistance; diagnostics Abstract: To counter the long turnaround time of standard ...
Point Prevalence Study of Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Use in Belgian Acute-Care Hospitals: Results of the ECDC PPS 2017
All patients who were present on the ward at 8h00 a.m. on the day of the PPS and who were not discharged at the time of the survey had to be included. Data collection had to be performed on one single ...
Surveillance of bloodstream infections in Belgian hospitals ('SEP')-Annual report 2017, Data up to and including 2016
last years, and findings are fairly consistent: Higher incidence in tertiary hospitals Higher incidence in ICU (in 2016, about four times higher incidence in ICU than the one found hospital-wide) There ...