Bert Vaes
Zelfstandig academisch personeel (ZAP)
Publicaties
- 2022
- Development of primary care quality indicators for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease using a Delphi-derived method
- Incorporating Baseline Outcome Data in Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis of Non-randomized Studies
- 2021
- Pneumococcal vaccination prevented severe LRTIs in adults: a causal inference framework applied in registry data
- Use of antibiotics and colorectal cancer risk: a primary care nested case-control study in Belgium
- Machine learning optimization of an electronic health record audit for heart failure in primary care
- Impact of Heat Waves on Hospitalisation and Mortality in Nursing Homes: A Case-Crossover Study
- An automated data cleaning method for Electronic Health Records by incorporating clinical knowledge
- Association of Thyroid Dysfunction With Cognitive Function An Individual Participant Data Analysis
- The effect of a case-finding app on the detection rate of atrial fibrillation compared with opportunistic screening in primary care patients: protocol for a cluster randomized trial
- Machine learning optimization of an electronic health record audit to improve heart failure identification in primary care
- Prevalence of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease, Heart Failure, and Chronic Kidney Disease in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Primary Care Research Network-based Study
- The effect of automated audit and feedback on data completeness in the electronic health record of the general physician: protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial
- A Heart Rate Monitoring App (FibriCheck) for Atrial Fibrillation in General Practice: Pilot Usability Study.
- Fast and optimal algorithm for case-control matching using registry data: application on the antibiotics use of colorectal cancer patients
- Burden of infections on older patients presenting to general practice: a registry-based study
- Cellular Immune Phenotypes and Worsening Scores of Frailty-Associated Parameters Over an 18-Month Period in the Very Old
- Cardiologists' perceptions on multidisciplinary collaboration in heart failure care - a qualitative study
- Impact of primary care involvement and setting on multidisciplinary heart failure management: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- Polypharmacy and excessive polypharmacy in community-dwelling middle aged and aged adults between 2011 and 2015
- Comorbidity burden in the first three years after diagnosis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis or spondyloarthritis: a general practice registry-based study
- 2020
- The effect of electronic audits and feedback in primary care and factors that contribute to their effectiveness: a systematic review
- Clinical decision support improves the appropriateness of laboratory test ordering in primary care without increasing diagnostic error: the ELMO cluster randomized trial
- Coding Systems for Clinical Decision Support: Theoretical and Real-World Comparative Analysis
- Zorg voor patiënten met hartfalen. Tien basisregels.
- Implementatie van een zorgpad hartfalen. Wat is het effect op de levenskwaliteit van de patiënt?
- Vlaams Lerend Netwerk Hartfalen. Naar een uniforme en multidisciplinaire aanpak.
- Impact of an extended audit on identifying heart failure patients in general practice: baseline results of the OSCAR-HF pilot study
- Low cholesterol levels are associated with a high mortality risk in older adults without statins therapy: An externally validated cohort study
- Invloed dalende eGFR op cardiovasculaire events
- The incidence of lower respiratory tract infections and pneumococcal vaccination status in adults in flemish primary care
- Malnutrition risk and its association with adverse outcomes in a Belgian cohort of community-dwelling adults aged 80 years and over
- Predictive Accuracy of Frailty Tools for Adverse Outcomes in a Cohort of Adults 80 Years and Older: A Decision Curve Analysis
- Optimal weighted estimation versus Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel
- The epidemiology of knee osteoarthritis in general practice: a registry-based study
- Biomarkers versus traditional risk factors to predict cardiovascular events in very old adults: cross-validated prospective cohort study
- 2019
- The Burden of Comorbidity in Patients with RA, PSA or SPA in a General Practice Registry
- Infectious burden in older patients presenting to general practice
- Fast two-stage estimator for clustered count data with overdispersion
- Optimising standards of care of heart failure in general practice the OSCAR-HF pilot study protocol
- Patient Characteristics and General Practitioners' Advice to Stop Statins in Oldest-Old Patients: a Survey Study Across 30 Countries
- Defining quality indicators for heart failure in general practice
- General practitioners' perceptions about their role in current and future heart failure care: an exploratory qualitative study
- INCIDENCE OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS, PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS AND SPONDYLOARTHRITIS AND THEIR ASSOCIATED COMORBIDITIES IN A BELGIAN GP REGISTRY
- Burden of heart failure in Flemish general practices: a registry-based study in the Intego database
- Think-aloud study about the diagnosis of chronic heart failure in Belgian general practice
- Assessing testing rates for viral hepatitis B and C by general practitioners in Flanders, Belgium: a registry-based study
- Low thyroid function is not associated with an accelerated deterioration in renal function
- Mobile Phone-Based Use of the Photoplethysmography Technique to Detect Atrial Fibrillation in Primary Care: Diagnostic Accuracy Study of the FibriCheck App
- Trends in multimorbidity and polypharmacy in the Flemish-Belgian population between 2000 and 2015
- The health and economic impact of acute gastroenteritis in Belgium, 2010-2014
- 2018
- Towards a disease management plan for heart failure patients in general practice
- Atrial Fibrillation Diagnosis Based on a Smartphone Derived Ppg Waveform: A Diagnostic Accuracy Study versus Single-Lead
- Diagnosing Atrial Fibrillation Based on the Qualitative Analysis of a Smartphone Derived Ppg Waveform
- Time trends in statin use and incidence of recurrent cardiovascular events in secondary prevention between 1999 and 2013: a registry-based study
- Is there a correlation between an eGFR slope measured over a 5-year period and incident cardiovascular events in the following 5 years among a Flemish general practice population: a retrospective cohort study
- Interventions for frail community-dwelling older adults have no significant effect on adverse outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- The Relation Between Thyroid Function and Anemia: A Pooled Analysis of Individual Participant Data
- Screening and Linkage to Care for Hepatitis C Viral Infection in the General Population in Belgium
- Health Data for Research Through a Nationwide Privacy-Proof System in Belgium: Design and Implementation
- Optimizing standards of care of heart failure in general practice. Results of the OSCAR-HF pilot study.
- Clinical Validation of Heart Rate Apps: Mixed-Methods Evaluation Study (vol 5, e129, 2017)
- Erratum: Metadata correction: Clinical validation of heart rate apps: Mixed-methods evaluation study (JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2018 6: 3 (e19) DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.7254)
- Apathy and depressive symptoms in older people and incident myocardial infarction, stroke, and mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data
- Is there a correlation between an eGFR slope measured over a 5-year period and incident cardiovascular events in the following 5 years among a Flemish general practice population: a retrospective cohort study
- Prognostic value of short-term decline of forced expiratory volume in 1 s over height cubed (FEV1/Ht(3)) in a cohort of adults aged 80 and over
- The OSCAR-HF Pilot study: Improvement for patients with heart failure needed
- Accuracy, user-friendliness and usefulness of the Cobas h232 point-of-care test for NT-proBNP in primary care
- Health problems associated with irritable bowel syndrome: Analysis of a primary care registry
- Methods to identify heart failure patients in general practice and their impact on patient characteristics: A systematic review
- 2017
- Correlates of dyspnoea and its association with adverse outcomes in a cohort of adults aged 80 and over
- Association between traditional cardiovascular risk factors and mortality in the oldest old: untangling the role of frailty
- Factors associated with Prolonged Inaction in the hypoglycaemic treatment in people with non-insulin dependent Type 2 Diabetes and elevated glycated haemoglobin: A registry-based cohort study
- Respiratory function and its predictive value for health outcomes in adults aged 80 and over
- CD4: 8 ratio above 5 is associated with all-cause mortality in CMV-seronegative very old women: results from the BELFRAIL study
- Clinical Validation of Heart Rate Apps: Mixed-Methods Evaluation Study
- Estimating the prevalence of diabetes mellitus and thyroid disorders using medication data in Flanders, Belgium
- Validation of a new mortality risk prediction model for people 65 years and older in northwest Russia: The Crystal risk score
- Novel oral anticoagulants in nonvalvular atrial fibrillation
- Predictive Value of Different Expressions of Forced Expiratory Volume in 1 Second (FEV1) for Adverse Outcomes in a Cohort of Adults Aged 80 and Older
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and its comorbidities: What comes first?
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and associated health problems: Insights from a primary care registry
- Anticholinergic Exposure in a cohort of adults aged 80 years and over Associations of the MARANTE scale with mortality and hospitalisation
- 2016
- Short Physical Performance Battery and all-cause mortality: systematic review and meta-analysis
- Improving care for heart failure patients in primary care, GPs' perceptions: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- Too many, too few, or too unsafe? Impact of inappropriate prescribing on mortality, and hospitalisation in a cohort of community-dwelling oldest old
- Diagnostic rules and algorithms for the diagnosis of non-acute heart failure in patients 80 years of age and older: a diagnostic accuracy and validation study
- STOPP 2 versus EU(7)-PIM: Comparing Prevalence and Impact of Inappropriate Prescribing on Mortality and Hospitalisation
- Too Many, Too Few, Or Too Unsafe? Impact Of Inappropriate Prescribing On Mortality, And Hospitalisation In Community-Dwelling Adults, Aged 80 And Older
- A High Sense of Coherence as Protection Against Adverse Health Outcomes in Patients Aged 80 Years and Older
- Polypharmacy in a Belgian cohort of community-dwelling oldest old (80+)
- Kan een dalende bloeddruk de nierfunctie bij ouderen verslechteren?
- Should we keep on measuring multimorbidity?
- What effects do interventions have on ‘frail’ older adults addressing the outcomes: mortality, hospitalization, costs and institutionalization?
- The clinical impact of valvular heart disease in a population-based cohort of subjects aged 80 and older
- Treatment intentions of general practitioners regarding hypertension in the oldest old: a vignette study
- Have interventions effect on frail community dwelling older adults
- Mortality, hospitalisation, institutionalisation in community-dwelling oldest old: The impact of medication
- Evaluating the scripts and thresholds of general practitioners for diagnosing heart failure in elderly people
- Empowerment en zelfmanagement bij hartfalen. Implementatie in de praktijk.
- Association between atrial fibrillation, anticoagulation, risk of cerebrovascular events and multimorbidity in general practice: a registry-based study
- 2015
- Detection of potentially inappropriate prescribing in the very old: cross-sectional analysis of the data from the BELFRAIL observational cohort study
- Interleukin-6 as a first-rated serum inflammatory marker to predict mortality and hospitalization in the oldest old: A regression and CART approach in the BELFRAIL study
- Prevalence and Prognostic Impact of Valve Area-Gradient Patterns in Patients ≥80 Years With Moderate-to-Severe Aortic Stenosis (from the Prospective BELFRAIL Study)
- POLYPHARMACY IN A BELGIAN COHORT OF COMMUNITY-DWELLING OLDEST OLD: BASELINE OBSERVATIONS AND ASSOCIATED RISK FACTORS
- IMPACT OF MEDICATION USE ON MORTALITY IN BELGIAN COMMUNITY-DWELLING OLDEST OLD
- General practitioners’ judgement of chronic heart failure in the oldest old: Insights from the BELFRAIL study
- General practitioners' judgment of chronic heart failure in the oldest old. Insights from the BELFRAIL study
- Airflow limitation by the Global Lungs Initiative equations in a cohort of very old adults
- The relationship of multimorbidity with disability and frailty in the oldest patients: A cross-sectional analysis of three measures of multimorbidity in the BELFRAIL cohort
- Multimorbidity measures were poor predictors of adverse events in patients aged≥ 80 years: a prospective cohort study
- CD4:8 Ratio > 5 Is Associated With a Dominant Naive T-Cell Phenotype and Impaired Physical Functioning in CMV-Seropositive Very Elderly People: Results From the BELFRAIL Study
- No relation between CMV infection and mortality in the oldest old: results from the Belfrail study
- Nieuwe orale anticoagulantia: wanneer gebruiken in de huisartspraktijk?
- The correlation between blood pressure and kidney function decline in older people: a registry-based cohort study
- Predictors of poor-quality spirometry in two cohorts of older adults in Russia and Belgium: a cross-sectional study
- Short-term prognostic value of forced expiratory volume in 1 second divided by height cubed in a prospective cohort of people 80 years and older
- Multimorbiditeit: een complex fenomeen
- 2014
- Interleukin-6 predicts short-term global functional decline in the oldest old: results from the BELFRAIL study
- Ma rk &kb The short-te prognostic value of forced expiratory volume in 1 second divided by height cubed (FENT.Ht-3) in a prospective cohort of people 8o years and older
- The short-term prognostic value of forced expiratory volume in 1 second divided by height cubed (FEV1.Ht(-3)) in a prospective cohort of people 80 years and older
- Drug prescriptions unadapted to the renal function in patients aged 80 years and older (a.)
- Muscle Strength and Physical Performance as Predictors of Mortality, Hospitalization, and Disability in the Oldest Old
- The glomerular filtration rate estimated by new and old equations as a predictor of important outcomes in elderly patients
- Significance of serum immune markers in identification of global functional impairment in the oldest old: cross-sectional results from the BELFRAIL study
- The relationship between physical performance and cardiac function in an elderly Russian cohort
- 2013
- A HIGH DEGREE OF IMMUNE COMMITMENT TO CONTROLLING THE PERSISTENT beta-HERPESVIRUS HHV5 (CMV) UNDERLINES THE IMPORTANCE OF MAINTAINING DEFENSES AGAINST THIS "INNOCUOUS" VIRUS IN THE ELDERLY
- The prevalence of sarcopenia in very old individuals according to the European consensus definition: insights from the BELFRAIL study
- The relationship between grip strength and muscle mass (MM), inflammatory biomarkers and physical performance in community-dwelling very old persons
- Value of Adding Natriuretic Peptides and Electrocardiographic Findings to Assess the Presence of Cardiac Dysfunction in Patients ≥ 80 Years of Age
- A more late-differentiated CD8 compartment is associated with a higher anti-CMV neutralising capacity in elderly women
- CD4/CD8 ratio > 5 is associated with a higher proportion of naïve CD8 and CD4 T-cells and an impaired physical functioning in the very elderly: results from the BELFRAIL study
- No relation between vitamin D status and physical performance in the oldest old: results from the Belfrail study
- The influence of renal function on vitamin d metabolism in the very elderly
- CD4/CD8 ratio > 5 is associated with a higher proportion of naïve CD8 and CD4 T-cells and an impaired physical functioning in the very elderly: results from the BELFRAIL study
- 2012
- The impact of confounders on the test performance of natriuretic peptides for cardiac dysfunction in subjects aged 80 and older
- Significance of serum immune markers in identification of functional impairment in the oldest old: cross-sectional results from the BELFRAIL study
- Relevance of identifying a low renal function in the very elderly
- Drug use unadapted to the renal function in patients aged 80 years and older
- Response to Dr. Strandberg et al
- Vitamine D tekort bij ouderen
- Cardiac dysfunction in the very elderly: the relevance of natriuretic peptide testing in clinical practice
- Significance of serum immune markers in identification of functional impairment in the oldest old: cross sectional results from the BELFRAIL study
- The prevalence of cardiac dysfunction and the correlation with poor functioning among the very elderly
- The prevalence and detection of chronic kidney disease (CKD)-related metabolic complications as a function of estimated glomerular filtration rate in the oldest old
- 2011
- Associations Between Cytomegalovirus Infection and Functional Impairment and Frailty in the BELFRAIL Cohort
- Estimating GFR in the oldest old: does it matter what equation we use?
- Influenza and pneumococcal vaccination uptake and determinants
- The prevalence of CKD related complications in function of estimated glomerulair filtration rates in the oldest of old, results of the BELFRAIL study
- To screen or not to screen for peripheral arterial disease in subjects aged 80 and over in primary health care: a cross-sectional analysis from the BELFRAIL study
- 2010
- The impact of a nurse-led care programme on events and physical and psychosocial parameters in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: a randomized clinical trial in primary care in Russia
- Diagnostic accuracy of plasma NT-proBNP levels for excluding cardiac abnormalities in the very elderly
- Estimating the GFR in the oldest old: does it matter what formula we use
- The BELFRAIL (BFC80+) study: a population-based prospective cohort study of the very elderly in Belgium
- 2009
- The accuracy of plasma natriuretic peptide levels for diagnosis of cardiac dysfunction and chronic heart failure in community-dwelling elderly: a systematic review
- Clinical relevance of a raised plasma N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide level in a population-based cohort of nonagenarians
- 2008
- Biologie de l'insuffisance cardiauqe en médecine générale
- 2006
- Cardiovasculaire risicofactoren uniform registreren. Voorwaarde voor kritische reflectie over de praktijkvoering
- 2005
- Begeleiding van Rookstop. Verslag van een praktijkproject