Publications
What criteria do foster care workers take into account when recommending foster children's visiting arrangements with their birth parents. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Concept mapping was used to identify criteria foster care workers in Flanders use to regulate visiting arrangements for birth parents of foster children. A sample of 43 foster care workers were asked to answer in writing the question: ‘What criteria do you take into account when you have to regulate visiting arrangements?’ Fifty unique answers were identified by three researchers. In a second phase, 32 foster care workers individually grouped ...
Misdiagnosis of Rheumatoid Arthritis in a Long-Term Cohort of Early Arthritis Based on the ACR-1987 Classification Criteria Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Objective: Correct diagnosis of early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is essential for optimal treatment choices. No pathognomonic test is available, and diagnosis is based on classification criteria, which can result in misdiagnosis. Here, we examined the differences between actual and misdiagnosed RA cases in a long-term cohort of patients included based on the ACR-1987 classification criteria.
Methods: Patients in the BARFOT (Better ...
Centor criteria in children in a paediatric emergency department Vrije Universiteit Brussel
INTRODUCTION: Centor criteria (fever >38.5°C, swollen, tender anterior cervical lymph nodes, tonsillar exudate and absence of cough) are an algorithm to assess the probability of group A β haemolytic Streptococcus (GABHS) as the origin of sore throat, developed for adults. We wanted to evaluate the correlation between Centor criteria and presence of GABHS in children with sore throat admitted to our paediatric emergency department ...
Re-visiting the 'Del Brutto diagnostic criteria' for the diagnosis of neurocysticercosis Ghent University
Evaluation of criteria for clinical control in a prospective, international, multicenter study of patients with COPD University of Antwerp
Can the interRAI Home Care instrument be applied to the definition criteria of the Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM)? A longitudinal study KU Leuven
Design Criteria for Electric Vehicle Fast Charge Infrastructure Based on Flemish Mobility Behavior KU Leuven
Methods to construct feeding visits from RFID registrations of growing-finishing pigs at the feed trough KU Leuven
Readiness of the Belgian network of sentinel general practitioners to deliver electronic health record data for surveillance purposes: results of survey study Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In order to proceed from a paper based registration to a surveillance system that is based on extraction of electronic health records (EHR), knowledge is needed on the number and representativeness of sentinel GPs using a government-certified EHR system and the quality of EHR data for research, expressed in the compliance rate with three criteria: recording of home visits, use of prescription module and diagnostic subject ...