in een artikel van De Standaard van 14 juni 2003, warin de voorzitter van de WVVH Jos De Smedt trouwens onvolledig wordt geciteerd, worden de huisartsen fel onder vuur genomen. Zij zouden te pas en te onpas kalmeermiddelen voorschrijven aan kinder...
Auteurs:Frank Buntinx, Stephaan Bartholomeeusen en Jan De Lepeleire
Dit boek tracht op een vulgariserende manier inzicht te geven in het allergische fenomeen. Vooreerst beschrijft het ons afweersysteem en de allergische reacties. Waarom worden mansen allergisch: erfelijke aanleg en omgevingsfactoren. De Hygiënehyp...
Introduction: A pilot study was set up to learn more abour the use of an instrument to measure patients' expectations of general practice. Method: People attending two GP practices in a rural area during a period of twelve weeks, were asked to com...
Auteurs:Jan De Lepeleire, M Creemers, K Van Tichelt en Herman Van Loon
BACKGROUND: The diagnostic value and the impact of some signs and symptoms in most diseases in primary care have only been studied incompletely. AIM: To assess the diagnostic value of macroscopic haematuria for the idagnosis of urological cancer (...
Auteurs:Rudi Bruyninckx, Frank Buntinx, Bert Aertgeerts en Viviane Van Casteren
Objectives. To determine the routine and mass immunisation coverage in children aged between 12 and 23 months in the Dikgale-Soekmekaar district, Northern Province, South Africa. Design. Cross-sectional community-based vaccination prevalence surve...
Auteurs:C van Turennout, J Vandelanotte, M van den Akker en A Depoorter
Alcohol en studenten zijn voor veel mensen twee begrippen die meestal hand in hand gaan. Verschillende onderzoeken geven aan dat heel wat studenten meer dan 5 à 6 glazen alcohol gebruikt bij één enkele gelegenheid. Eén van de belangrijkste gevolge...
BACKGROUND: Respiratory failure due to lung immaturity is a major cause of mortality in preterm infants. Although intermittent positive pressure ventilation (IPPV) saves lives, lung distortion during its use is associated with lung injury and chro...
Auteurs:DJ Henderson-Smart, T Bhuta, Filip Cools en M Offringa
Although a lot of research has been performed on the relation between depression and subsequent mortality, the results show contradictory findings. In this study, the authors investigated mortality in depressed people compared with nondepressed pe...
Auteurs:Kim TJL Ensinck, Agnes G Schuurman, Marjan van den Akker, Job FM Metsemakers, Arnold DM Kester, J André Knottnerus en Frank Buntinx
According to the 1996-1998 cancer incidence report of the cancer registry of the Belgian province of Limburg (LIKAR), prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men with a crude invasive cancer incidence rate of 123.7 per 100000 person-years (12...
Auteurs:Daniël Lousbergh, Frank Buntinx, H Geys, M Du Bois, D Dhollander en G Molenberghs
The association between several cancers and selenium status has been investigated in epidemiological studies. However, few results concerning bladder cancer have been reported thus far. The association between toenail selenium status and subsequen...
Auteurs:MPA Zeegers, RA Goldbohm, P Bode en PA van den Brandt
Objective: To evaluate antibody titers against measles, mumps and rubella in children aged 6-17 years. Background: Current Flemish recommendations for immunization include a trivalent measles-mumps-rubella (MMR)-vaccine at 15 months (since 1985) a...
Auteurs:Corinne Vandermeulen, Birgitte Schoenmakers, Mathieu Roelants, Marc Van Ranst, Pierre Van Damme en Karel Hoppenbrouwers
The object of this article was to validate the predictive value of Charlson's comorbidity index for the prediction of short-term mortality or morbidity in elderly people. The design was a cohort study comparing survival and hospitalization in inst...
Auteurs:Frank Buntinx, L Niclaes, C Suetens, B Jans, R Mertens en M Van den Akker
A large-scale study (N = 3,518) was designed to assess the academic performance of college freshmen in relationship to alcohol abuse or dependence. Alcohol abuse or dependence was identified in 501 (14%) students; of these, 128 (3.6%) were alcohol...
INTRODUCTION: The aim was to explore the context and experiences of collaboration between the general practitioner (GP) and the district nurse (DN) on diagnosing dementia, in order to identify possible procedures to improve care. MATERIAL AND METH...
Auteurs:Frans Boch Waldorff, Lars Bo Bülow, Kirsti Malterud en Gunhild Waldemar
OBJECTIVES: The aim of the present study was to describe the patient's perspective on the GP's care after violent events: which role is the GP assigned; and how is the care appreciated. Events studied were serious accidents, burglary, robbery, phy...
Auteurs:SSL Mol, GJ Dinant, PAP Vilters-van Montfort, JFM Metsemakers, M van den Akker, A Arntz en JA Knottnerus
This research is an epidemiological study of long-term care facility admissions to various types of institutions (homes for the elderly, nursing homes, psychiatric institutions) during 1994 in Belgium. Data were obtained from a network of 143 gene...
Auteurs:D Devroey, V Van Casteren en Jan De Lepeleire
