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Death following pulmonary complications of surgery before and during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic KU Leuven

Wouter Oosterlinck, Anna Kisiel, Troy Munro
BACKGROUND: This study aimed to determine the impact of pulmonary complications on death after surgery both before and during the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic. METHODS: This was a patient-level, comparative analysis of two, international prospective cohort studies: one before the pandemic (January-October 2019) and the second during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic (local emergence of COVID-19 up to 19 April ...

Preoperative nasopharyngeal swab testing and postoperative pulmonary complications in patients undergoing elective surgery during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic KU Leuven

Wouter Oosterlinck
BACKGROUND: Surgical services are preparing to scale up in areas affected by COVID-19. This study aimed to evaluate the association between preoperative SARS-CoV-2 testing and postoperative pulmonary complications in patients undergoing elective cancer surgery. METHODS: This international cohort study included adult patients undergoing elective surgery for cancer in areas affected by SARS-CoV-2 up to 19 April 2020. Patients suspected of ...

Costs of dengue prevention and incremental cost of dengue outbreak control in Guantanamo, Cuba Universiteit Gent

Alberto Baly Gil, Maria E Toledo, Karina Rodriguez, Juan R Benitez, Maritza Rodriguez, Marleen Boelaert, Veerle Vanlerberghe, Patrick Van Der Stuyft
Objective: To assess the economic cost of routine Aedes aegypti control in an at-risk environment without dengue endemicity and the incremental costs incurred during a sporadic outbreak.Methods: The study was conducted in 2006 in the city of Guantanamo, Cuba. We took a societal perspective to calculate costs in months without dengue transmission (January-July) and during an outbreak (August-December). Data sources were bookkeeping records, ...

Street authority and the politics of everyday policing : (anti-)gangs, the state, and martial arts and action movies in Goma, DRC Universiteit Gent

Maarten Hendriks
Through the ethnographic lens of so-called gangs and anti-gangs, this doctoral thesis investigates the politics of everyday policing in the conflict-affected city of Goma (Democratic Republic of Congo) and the distinct style of street authority it produces. The gangs and anti-gangs focused upon in this doctoral study are marginalised youths from Goma’s popular neighbourhoods, who see it as their mission to protect the cities’ inhabitants from ...

A systematic review: A quest for effective interventions for children and adolescents in street situation Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Isabel Berckmans, Gerrit Loots
This review on interventions for children and adolescents in street situation (CASS) starts where Dybicz ended his review in 2005. In his conclusion Dybicz pleads for more empirical research addressing the effectiveness of interventions and capturing the voices of different actors involved in intervention programmes in a culture and gender sensitive way. Our review began with a broad search for academic literature on interventions for CASS ...

Novel strategies to inhibit enterovirus replication KU Leuven

Armando De Palma
Picornavirussen vormen een grote, wijdverspreide virusfamilie die ingedeeld wordt in negen genera. In de humane geneeskunde zijn entero- en rhinovirussen de twee meest relevante genera. Rhinovirussen zijn de belangrijkste oorzaak van verkoudheden en hoewel meestal niet levensbedreigend, hebben ze een enorme socio-economische impact (verloren school- en werkdagen). Daarenboven wijzen meer en meer studies erop dat rhinovirussen betrokken zijn bij ...

Perceived urban ecosystem services and disservices in gentrifying neighborhoods: Contrasting views between community members and state informants Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Mary Kathryn Rodgman, Isabelle Anguelovski, Carmen Pérez Del Pulgar, Galia Shokry, Melissa Garcia-Lamarca, James J. T. Connolly, Francesc Baró, Margarita Triguero-Mas
As assessing urban ecosystem services and disservices is of rapidly growing interest in a context of increasingly urbanized environments, greater scholarly attention needs to be placed on how different informants perceive these services and disservices. Previous research in urban geography and planning has already pointed at the challenges of building inclusive natural outdoor environments such as green and blue spaces in gentrifying ...

Phylogenomics and historical biogeography of Hydrangeeae (Hydrangeaceae) elucidate the effects of geologic and climatic dynamics on diversification Plantentuin Meise / Agentschap Plantentuin Meise

Xudong Yang, Xu Zhang, Tiantian Xue, Xiaoxia Zhang, Fusheng Yang, Jianghong Yu, Steven B. Janssens, Rainer W. Bussmann, Sheng-Xiang Yu

Demonstrating the process of transregional biogeography and mechanisms underlying evolutionary radiations is crucial to understanding biological evolution. Here, we use Hydrangeeae (Hydrangeaceae), a tribe with a unique disjunct distribution and complex trait variations, using a solid phylogenetic framework, to investigate how geographical and climatic factors interact with functional traits to trigger plant evolutionary radiations. We ...

A multi-stage process to develop quality indicators for community-based palliative care using interRAI data Vrije Universiteit Brussel KU Leuven Universiteit Gent

Dawn M Guthrie, Nicole Williams, Cheryl Beach, Emma Buzath, Joachim Cohen, Anja Declercq, Kathryn Fisher, Brant E Fries, Donna Goodridge, Kirsten Hermans, et al.

BACKGROUND: Individuals receiving palliative care (PC) are generally thought to prefer to receive care and die in their homes, yet little research has assessed the quality of home- and community-based PC. This project developed a set of valid and reliable quality indicators (QIs) that can be generated using data that are already gathered with interRAI assessments-an internationally validated set of tools commonly used in North America for ...