Publicaties

BACKGROUND: Ventilated newborn infants breathing in asynchrony with the ventilator are at risk for complications during mechanical ventilation, such as pneumothorax or intraventricular hemorrhage, and are exposed to more severe barotrauma, which c...

Substance use is emerging in Belgium. The 'typical user' starts at a young age. Polydrug use has become very common. Cannabis and alcohol are the most frequently used substances among the school population. Heroin and cocaine are the most frequent...

Since the introduction of evidence-based medicine (EBM) into the field of health care in the early nineties some major criticisms have appeared in scientific literature. One of the most commonly heard objections to EBM is loss of therapeutic freed...

De Virtuele Bibliotheek Gezondheidszorg (VBG) van het Belgisch Centrum voor Evidence-based Medicine (CEBAM) biedt zorgverleners toegang tot evidnece-based medische literatuur en wil hen ondersteunen bij het nemen van klinische beslissingen. Dit pi...

The aim of this systematic review is to assess the effects of educational interventions to improve the communication skills of General Practice trainees during clinical consultations. The review will examine the effects of these interventions prim...

Despite the large amount of research concerning alcohol and students, there is little published work on the impact of alcohol on learning or academic performance among university students. Out of more than 2500 articles published since 1990 concer...

Dit praktijkproject in de huisartsengroepspraktijk van Hoeilaart bevroeg in een eerste fase het rookgedrag van patiënten en paste overeenkomstig de WVVH-aanbeveling Stoppen met roken in een tweede fase rookstopbegeleiding via minimale interventie ...

In dit zesde artikel van de reeks over Intego analyseren de auteurs de incidentiegegevens van 1994 tot en met 2003 met betrekking tot acute urineweginfecties, met name cystitis, pyel(onefr)itits en urethritis. Opvallend zijn de duidelijke geslacht...

Dit derde artikel van de reeks over de Inteog-databank bespreekt de incidentie, leeftijds-en geslachtsverdeling en de seizoensvariatie van wratten over een periode van tien jaar. Uit onze gegevens blijkt dat wratten vooral in de maande september e...

In België worden zorgbehoefte en zelfredzaamheid gemeten aan de hand van de beoordeling van ADL-activiteiten. Ook de financiering wordt hieraan gekoppeld. Het instrument dat voor die beoordeling wordt gebruikt is de Katz-schaal of varianten ervan....

Previous analyses of the Limburg Cancer registry (LIKAR) indicatedthe existence of a geographical cluster of bladder cancer incidence,particularly transitional cell carcinomas, amongst males in the surroundingarea of the Belgian cities Hasselt and...

The aim of this systematic review is to gather all relevant studies assessing the effect of training in information retrieval technology on the competences and performance of students in all health care professions. The systematic review is execut...

Heroin addiction is a chronic relapsing disease that is difficult to cure, but stabilisation and harm reduction can importantly increase the life time expectancy and the quality of life of the patient, his immediate vicinity and society in general...

BACKGROUND: Paediatricians are increasingly confronted with end-of-life decisions in critically ill neonates and infants. Little is known about the frequency and characteristics of end-of-life decisions in this population, nor about the relation w...

BACKGROUND: Demand for primary care services has increased in developed countries due to population ageing, rising patient expectations, and reforms that shift care from hospitals to the community. At the same time, the supply of physicians is con...

Over recent decades, the number of available clinical practice guidelines has grown enormously. Guidelines should meet specific quality criteria to ensure good quality. There is a growing need to develop a set of criteria to ensure that potential ...

Based on data searches and life-table analyses, we determined the long-term (remaining lifetime) and short-term (10- and 5-year) absolute risks of hip fracture after sustaining a Colles' or spine fracture and searched for potential gender-related ...

OBJECTIVE: General practice visits are a unique opportunity to identify and treat individuals with a high cardiovascular (CV) risk. However, a case-finding strategy suited to the daily general practice is not provided in the CV prevention guidelin...

BACKGROUND: Large and undeclared differences exist between incidence and prevalence rates of depression in general practice based morbidity registries, and in registries based on questionnaires of questionnaire-based interviews. We tried to identi...

BACKGROUND: This issue of whether or not, how and when patients should be told of the diagnosis of dementia remains a matter for discussion. Recent data confirm that the patient is told of the diagnosis in only 40 to 55% of cases. We therefore stu...

This series of articles begins with a problem frequently encountered in children: acute otitis media. Under the insistence of parents, antibiotics are frequently prescribed. The physician knows that the value of that therapy is debatable, but what...

OBJECTIVE: Although narrative reviews have suggested an association between (CAG)n and (GGN)n polymorphisms in the AR gene and prostate cancer, it has never been quantified systematically. The purpose of this meta-analysis was to provide relative ...