The uniqueness of human dentition is routinely approached as identification evidence in forensic odontology. Specifically in bitemark and human identification cases, positive identifications are obtained under the hypothesis that two individuals d...
Auteurs:Ademir Franco Do Rosario Junior, Guy Willems, Paulo Henrique Couto Souza, Geertruida E Bekkering, and Patrick Thevissen
INTRODUCTION: Haemophilia is a rare genetic haemorrhagic disease characterized by partial or complete deficiency of coagulation factor VIII, for haemophilia A, or IX, for haemophilia B. As in any other medical research domain, the field of haemoph...
BACKGROUND: Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) remains a major contributor to maternal morbidity even in high resource settings, despite the development and dissemination of evidence-based guidelines and Advance-Trauma-Life-Support (ATLS) based courses ...
Auteurs:Mallory D Woiski, Evelien Belfroid, Janine Liefers, Richard P Grol, Hubertina C Scheepers, and Rosella P Hermens
Background: The highly increased prevalence of chronic conditions challenges the actual health care systems. The Flemish governments has adopted the Chronic Care Model as the mainframe for health policy changes. However until now, there was no maj...
Auteurs:Gunther D'Hanis, Wim Verhoeven, Pierre Sijbers, Dimitri Gaethofs, Peter Hoffman, Jan Palsterman, Jo Borloo, Bruno Mettepenningen, Anne-Cathérine Poelmans, Dieter Deplancke, Gert Merckx, Dirk Put, and Geert Goderis
INTRODUCTION: To systematically develop a set of guideline-based quality indicators for postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) as a tool to measure guideline adherence in actual PPH care. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A Rand-modified Delphi procedure was used to sys...
Auteurs:Mallory D Woiski, Hubertina C Scheepers, Janine Liefers, Marcus Lance, Johanna M Middeldorp, Fred K Lotgering, Richard P Grol, and Rosella P Hermens
Background Several stigma reduction intervention strategies have been developed and tested for effectiveness in terms of increasing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) test uptake. These strategies have been more effective in some contexts and les...
Auteurs:Subash Thapa, Karin Hannes, Margaret Cargo, Anne Buve, and Cathy Matheï
BACKGROUND: The construction of EBMPracticeNet, a national electronic point-of-care information platform in Belgium, began in 2011 to optimize quality of care by promoting evidence-based decision making. The project involved, among other tasks, th...
Auteurs:Stijn Van de Velde, Lieve Macken, Koen Vanneste, Martine Goossens, Jan Vanschoenbeek, Bert Aertgeerts, Klaar Vanopstal, Robert Vander Stichele, and Joost Buysschaert
Onze huidige kennismaatschappij en de snel wijzigende inzichten in de medische wereld vereisen van artsen een grote eigen verantwoordelijkheid om hun competenties voortdurend te blijven ontwikkelen en bijschaven. In dit artikel wordt stilgestaan b...
Auteurs:Lena Vannieuwenborg, Martine Goossens, Jan De Lepeleire, and Birgitte Schoenmakers
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: In the past decades, treatment options and strategies for ulcerative colitis [UC] have radically changed. Whether these developments have altered the disease outcome at population level is yet unknown. Therefore, we evaluated ...
Auteurs:Steven FG Jeuring, Paul HA Bours, Maurice P Zeegers, Ton W Ambergen, Tim RA van den Heuvel, Marielle JL Romberg-Camps, Ad A van Bodegraven, Liekele E Oostenbrug, Stephanie O Breukink, Laurents PS Stassen, Wim H Hameeteman, Ad AM Masclee, Daisy MAE Jonkers, and Marieke J Pierik
Introduction The financial constraints and the shift of care from the hospital to the homecare setting challenges home nursing to provide care to sicker patients than in the past, to perform more intensive and technically complex nursing activitie...
Auteurs:Kristel De Vliegher, Anja Declercq, Bert Aertgeerts, and Philip Moons
IMPORTANCE: Capillary refill time (CRT) is widely recommended as part of the routine assessment of unwell children. OBJECTIVE: To determine the diagnostic value of capillary refill time for a range of serious outcomes in children. METHODS: We sear...
Auteurs:Susannah Fleming, Peter Gill, Caroline Jones, James A Taylor, Ann Van den Bruel, Carl Heneghan, Nia Roberts, and Matthew Thompson
BACKGROUND: The need for physical cancer rehabilitation programmes (PCRPs), addressing adverse effects from cancer, is growing. Implementing these programmes into daily practice is still a challenge. Since barriers for successful implementation of...
Auteurs:Charlotte IJsbrandy, Petronella B Ottevanger, Wim G Groen, Winald R Gerritsen, Wim H van Harten, and Rosella PMG Hermens
INTRODUCTION: Inappropriate DNA methylation is frequently associated with human tumour development, and in specific cases, is associated with clinical outcomes. Previous reports of DNA methylation in low/intermediate grade non-muscle invasive blad...
Auteurs:Mark O Kitchen, Richard T Bryan, Kim E Haworth, Richard D Emes, Christopher Luscombe, Lyndon Gommersall, KK Cheng, Maurice P Zeegers, Nicholas D James, Adam J Devall, Anthony A Fryer, and William E Farrell
BACKGROUND: Increasing evidence suggests that long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid (LCPUFA) availability in utero could program later health. OBJECTIVE: The objective of the study was to explore whether prenatal LCPUFA availability could be invol...
Auteurs:Sylvia HJ Jochems, Marij Gielen, Patrick Rump, Gerard Hornstra, and Maurice P Zeegers
Wat is gekend? ❯❯ Er is een alarmerende incidentie en prevalentie van benzodiazepinegebruik in België. ❯❯ Dit hoge gebruik kent een gedeelde verantwoordelijkheid: de arts heeft te weinig tijd en kennis, terwijl de patiënt zich onvoldoende bewust i...
Auteurs:Geert Klaassen, Caroline Helsen, B Klaassen, and Marc Van Nuland
Although degenerative aortic valve stenosis (AS) is common with increasing age, limited data exist regarding the prevalence and prognostic impact of its various valve area-gradient patterns in patients ≥80 years. To test this, echocardiograms were...
Auteurs:Nawel Rezzoug, Bert Vaes, Agnès Pasquet, Bernhard Gerber, Christophe de Meester, Gijs Van Pottelbergh, Wim Adriaensen, Cathy Matheï, Jean-Marie Degryse, and Jean-Louis Vanoverschelde
