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Suffering in silence: a qualitative study on reasons of delay in seeking care for visceral leishmaniasis in southern Gedaref, Sudan Institute of Tropical Medicine
Position paper: Delayed rhythm control of atrial fibrillation may be a cause of failure to prevent recurrences: reasons for change to active antiarrhythmic treatment at the time of the first detected episode KU Leuven University of Antwerp
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with impaired functional capacity and quality of life and significant morbidity and mortality. The current management approach fails to maintain stable sinus rhythm (SR) in the majority of patients. For many years, guidelines have recommended antiarrhythmic treatment of a first AF episode only if the AF is poorly tolerated, a position that has been reinforced by studies showing no mortality or morbidity ...
Multicentre study on rates and reasons for treatment discontinuation in patients with remaining cryopreserved embryos University of Antwerp KU Leuven Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Research question: What is the discontinuation rate among patients with remaining cryopreserved embryos in Belgium and what are the reasons for discontinuation?Design: Multicentre, cross-sectional study across 11 Belgian fertility clinics. Patients were eligible (n = 1917) if they had previously undergone an unsuccessful fresh embryo transfer (fresh group) or frozen embryo transfer (FET) (in-between group) and did not start a subsequent FET ...
Autopsy acceptance rate and reasons for decline in Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda Institute of Tropical Medicine
Objective To determine the autopsy acceptance rate and reasons for decline at Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda. Methods The next of kin of patients who died in a combined infectious diseases and gastro-enterology ward of Mulago Hospital were approached to answer a questionnaire concerning characteristics of their deceased relative. During the interview their consent was asked to perform a complete autopsy. If autopsy was declined, the next of ...
Autopsy acceptance rate and reasons for decline in Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda University of Antwerp
Objective To determine the autopsy acceptance rate and reasons for decline at Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda. Methods The next of kin of patients who died in a combined infectious diseases and gastro-enterology ward of Mulago Hospital were approached to answer a questionnaire concerning characteristics of their deceased relative. During the interview their consent was asked to perform a complete autopsy. If autopsy was declined, the next of ...
Analysis of the effects of a delay of surgery in patients with hip fractures: outcome and causes Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Summary: This study analyzed characteristics of hip fracture patients who did not undergo surgery within 24 hours after hospitalization, as recommended by the Belgian quality standards. Reasons for delay were analyzed. Delay in surgery for hip fracture was related to the medical condition of the patients. Introduction: To compare patients with optimal timing to patients with a delay in hip surgery, with respect to outcome (complications ...
At Last! Reaching the Remedy for Delay after a Long Ride through the EU Judicial System, Case T‑577/14 Gascogne Sack Deutschland and Gascogne v. European Union, EU:T:2017:1 KU Leuven
Two fundamental issues arise from this remedies-for-delay saga and both warrant increased attention. First, the impartiality of the General Court in the action for damages is contestable, and there are good reasons to be even more suspicious with respect to similar cases in the future which might not follow the same trajectory as Gascogne Sack Deutschland and Gascogne. Second, the effectiveness of the judicial remedy as prescribed by the CJEU ...
Joint Estimation of Propagation Delay Dispersion and Time of Arrival in a 40nm CMOS Comparator Bank for Time-Based Receivers KU Leuven
This brief presents an approach to compensate time-of-arrival (ToA) estimation errors caused by the effect of signal depending propagation delays in receivers for ranging applications. As a straightforward reasoning, reducing the ToA error results in increased power consumption in the analog-front-end blocks of such receivers. In the proposed system topology, the asynchronous receiver's analog-front-end blocks contain an array of identical ...
Survey among Belgian pig producers about the introduction of group housing systems for gestating sows Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Ghent University
There is a global move from individual to group housing of gestating sows. In the European Union, individual gestating stalls will be banned by 2013. Just like in other industrialized regions, these stalls have been the standard housing system for intensively kept sows from the 1960s onward in the Flemish region of Belgium. Because the socioeconomic consequences for the pig industry may be far-reaching and because farmer attitude may influence ...