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Accounting for Adverse Events Following Immunization in Economic Evaluation: Systematic Review of Economic Evaluations of Pediatric Vaccines Against Pneumococcus, Rotavirus, Human Papillomavirus, Meningococcus and Measles-Mumps-Rubella-Varicella KU Leuven
OBJECTIVES: Economic evaluations of vaccines should accurately represent all relevant economic and health consequences of vaccination, including losses due to adverse events following immunization (AEFI). We investigated to what extent economic evaluations of pediatric vaccines account for AEFI, which methods are used to do so and whether inclusion of AEFI is associated with study characteristics and the vaccine's safety profile. METHODS: A ...
Evolution in evaluation? Analysis of Flemish environmental policy evaluation practice University of Antwerp
Issues in Software Architecture: Online Updates and Architectural Evaluation (Issues in software architectuur: dynamisch aanpassen van software en architectuur evaluatie) KU Leuven
It is generally accepted that software architecture lays the foundationfor software qualities. In this dissertation we focus on two concrete engineering problems in which software architecture plays a primary role. In the first line of research we focus on online updates to Software Product Line (SPL) products. We consider coarse-grained updates of deployed products, which are performed by software integrators. Our concrete focus is on two key ...
Geography, structure, and evolution of diffusion and perfusion lesions in Diffusion and perfusion imaging Evaluation For Understanding Stroke Evolution (DEFUSE) KU Leuven
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The classical representation of acute ischemic lesions on MRI is a central diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) lesion embedded in a perfusion-weighted imaging (PWI) lesion. We investigated spatial relationships between final infarcts and early DWI/PWI lesions before and after intravenous thrombolysis in the Diffusion and perfusion imaging Evaluation For Understanding Stroke Evolution (DEFUSE) study. METHODS: Baseline and ...
Explaining use and non-use of policy evaluations in a mature evaluation setting KU Leuven
Governments worldwide have intensified their efforts to institutionalize policy evaluation. Still, also in organizations with high evaluation maturity, the use of evaluations is not self-evident. As mature organizations already meet many of the factors that are commonly seen to foster evaluation use, they constitute an interesting research setting to identify (combinations of) factors that can make a key difference in minimizing research waste. ...
Policy evaluation (in)activity unravelled. A configurational analysis of the incidence, number, locus and quality of policy evaluations in the Flemish public sector KU Leuven
Despite a general and increased consensus about the intrinsic value of policy evaluation for professional government, we can observe large variety in evaluation activity across public sector organizations. In explaining this variance, the evaluation literature offers fragmented insights only. This study aims to fill this void. We examine which combinations of conditions explain policy evaluation (in)activity.By focusing on the Flemish public ...
Acteurs et évaluation de projets de développement; vers une approche pluraliste de l'évaluation Institute of Tropical Medicine
Evaluation of Circular Construction Works During Design Phase: An Overview of Valuation Tools KU Leuven
The construction industry is one of the largest producers of waste. The Circular Economy Action Plan of the EU aims to tackle this issue and aspires to enhance the sustainability of the construction industry by adopting more circular principles and bio-based material use. For this purpose, an approach is being developed that facilitates coherence between technical, economical, legal, social aspects, and business models for circular design and ...
Designing and evaluating provider results-based financing for tuberculosis care in Georgia: a realist evaluation protocol Institute of Tropical Medicine
Introduction: In 2016, Georgian researchers and policymakers were developing a policy to improve the performance of the national tuberculosis (TB) control programme. The research programme 'Designing and Evaluating Provider Results-Based Financing for Tuberculosis Care in Georgia: Understanding Costs, Mechanisms of Effect and Impact (Results4TB)' was initiated to inform the policy formulation phase, document the policy implementation and ...