Firms that self-report cartels risk having their information exposed. If the costs associated with these risks are large then it will have a “chilling effect" on self-reporting. This effect can sustain cartels even without trigger strategies in a Bertrand duopoly. Thus, we show that disclosure rules, which determine how much information from AA pro...
Published in BMC endocrine disorders
In this research, data of the DehPCS study were used to assess the validity of self-reported diabetes based on the reference criteria, including the history of taking oral anti-diabetic drugs, insulin injection, or high fasting blood sugar. A cross-sectional analytical study was performed on 4400 participants of the DehPCS study, aged 35-70 years. ...
Published in BMC Public Health
Background In the UK approximately a quarter of the population experience infectious intestinal disease (IID) each year. However, only 2% present to primary care, preventing a true determination of community burden and pathogen aetiology. The aim of this pilot study was to gauge public acceptability of a technology-mediated platform for reporting e...
Recently emerging mechanochromic systems are becoming highly attractive for structural health monitoring (SHM) purposes in various industries, such as civil, wind, and aerospace, to improve the safety and performance of structures. These are based on self-reporting polymer composites which provide a light-weight sensor with an easy-to-read visual c...
Published in Journal of clinical orthopaedics and trauma
There is an increased demand of telemedicine in the recent century, especially with the outbreak of Covid-19. The aim of this study was to investigate patients' reliability in self-assessing own elbow range of motion following surgery for trauma. All patients of age ≥16 years who underwent surgery for elbow trauma at the local trauma unit between M...
Published in Accident; analysis and prevention
Lower severity cycling collisions, and single cyclist collisions (or single bicycle crashes) are significantly underreported in police statistics, introducing biases into the types of collisions that are available for analysis. Furthermore, many lower severity collisions do not appear in other collision data sources (e.g. hospital and insurance dat...
Published in International journal of medical informatics
Hospitals and medical staff use digital devices such as mobile phones and tablets to treat patients. Prior research has examined patient-reported outcomes, and the use of medical devices to do diagnosis and prognosis of patients, but not whether patients like using, and intend to use in future, mobile devices to self-report medical data. We address...
Published in The Nigerian postgraduate medical journal
HIV/AIDS is a global health challenge with a high burden in sub-Saharan Africa. Long-distance drivers are a high-risk group whose assessment of HIV status, awareness and willingness to undergo HIV self-testing (HIVST) could help prevent the spread of HIV infections. This study examined the sexual practices, risk perception and HIVST acceptability a...
Published in BMC Public Health
BackgroundResearchers interested in the effects of health on various life outcomes often use self-reported health and disease as an indicator of true, underlying health status. However, the validity of reporting is questionable as it relies on the awareness, recall bias and social desirability. Accordingly, biomedical test is generally regarded as ...
Although COVID-19 has been spreading throughout Belgium since February, 2020, its spatial dynamics in Belgium remain poorly understood, partly due to the limited testing of suspected cases during the epidemic's early phase. We analyse data of COVID-19 symptoms, as self-reported in a weekly online survey, which is open to all Belgian citizens. We pr...
