A5103142161- Antibiotic Use and Resistance
- Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
- Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Antibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Frailty in Older Adults
- Urinary Tract Infections Management
- Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention
- Streptococcal Infections and Treatments
- Nail Diseases and Treatments
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
- Pesticide Residue Analysis and Safety
- Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
- Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
- Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
Sciensano (Belgium)
2019-2023
Institut Scientifique de Santé Publique
2022
Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety
2020
Residents in long-term care facilities (LTCF) are a vulnerable population group. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-related deaths LTCF residents represent 30-60% of all COVID-19 many European countries. This situation demands that countries implement local and national testing, infection prevention control, monitoring programmes for order to identify clusters early, decrease the spread within between reduce size severity outbreaks.
The point prevalence survey of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and antimicrobial use organized by the European Centre for Disease Prevention Control (ECDC-PPS) Global Point Prevalence Survey consumption (Global-PPS) were simultaneously performed in Belgian acute care hospitals 2017.
Building the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance network in Veterinary medicine (EARS-Vet) was proposed to strengthen One Health antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance approach.
In Belgium, the first COVID-19 death was reported on 10 March 2020. Nursing home (NH) residents are particularly vulnerable for COVID-19, making it essential to follow-up spread of in this setting. This manuscript describes methodology surveillance and epidemiology cases, hospitalizations deaths Belgian NHs.A all NHs (n = 1542) set up by regional health authorities Sciensano. Aggregated data possible/confirmed cases case-based were at least once a week. The study period covered...
Objective: To understand the role of age and sex structures, health frailty, contamination dynamics in COVID-19 mortality populations living inside outside care homes.
This article introduces a series of articles on antibiotic consumption in the community between 1997 and 2017, which provide an update previous covering periods 1997-2003 1997-2009.
Abstract COVID-19 became pandemic in 2020 and causes higher mortality males (M) than females (F) among older people. In some countries, like Belgium, more half of confirmed or suspected deaths occurring spring concerned residents care homes. The high incidence this population is certainly linked to its peculiar age structure but could also result from poorer general health condition and/or a contamination through the staff homes, while protection equipment testing capacity were initially...
This tutorial describes and illustrates statistical methods to detect time trends possibly including abrupt changes (referred as change-points) in the consumption of antibiotics community.
BackgroundStudies have demonstrated the link between antimicrobial consumption and development of resistance. Surveillance is an action point European Commission's 'One Health Action Plan Against Antimicrobial Resistance'.AimThis study aims to compare two methodologies for antibiotic surveillance, investigate 14-year evolution in Belgian acute care hospitals discuss future perspectives.MethodsWe compared self-reported data (old methodology) reimbursement (new national surveillance hospitals....
Background COVID-19-related mortality in Belgium has drawn attention for two reasons: its high level, and a good completeness reporting of deaths. An ad hoc surveillance was established to register COVID-19 death numbers hospitals, long-term care facilities (LTCF) the community. adopted broad inclusion criteria notifications, also including possible cases, resulting robust correlation between all-cause mortality. Aim To document assess Belgium. Methods We described content data flows...
Reports on the consumption of systemic antifungal drugs a national level are scarce although high interest to compare trends and associated epidemiology in other countries assess need for stewardship programmes.To estimate patterns Belgian inpatient outpatient use provide reference data countries.Consumption records antifungals were collected hospitals between 2003 2016. Primary healthcare available azoles period 2010-2016.The majority resulted from prescriptions fluconazole itraconazole...
COVID-19 severely affected nursing home residents from March 2020 onwards in Belgium. This study aimed to model the impact of vaccination and facility characteristics on cluster occurrence, duration severity this setting. Possible clusters were identified between June January 2022, based Belgian surveillance homes. Median attack rates (AR) among staff, case hospitalization (CHR) fatality (CFR) calculated. A negative binomial was used identify association number cases, hospital admissions...
Background: The latest published World Health Organization 21 st Model list of Essential Medicines updated the AWaRe (Access, Watch Reserve) classification antibiotics. aim this study was to explore trends and quantify consumption Reserve group antibiotics in European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) countries.Methods: Data on antimicrobial hospital sector EU/EEA countries for 2010-2018 were obtained from Centre Disease Prevention Control (ECDC). Consumption antibacterials systemic use...