Involuntary Displacements-Making a Bad Situation Worse.
Advocacy: Transforming Our Understanding of Physicianship.
Agency in Contraceptive Decision-Making in Patient Care: a Psychometric Measure.
BackgroundPatient agency in contraceptive decision-making is an essential component of reproductive autonomy.ObjectiveWe aimed to develop a psychometrically robust measure of patient contraceptive agency in the clinic visit, as a measure does not yet exist.DesignFor scale development, we generated and field tested 54 questionnaire items, grounded i...
In Vivo Foot Segmental Motion and Coupling Analysis during Midterm Follow-Up after the Open Reduction Internal Fixation ...
PURPOSE: Trimalleolar ankle fractures (TAFs) are common traumatic injuries. Studies have described postoperative clinical outcomes in relation to fracture morphology, but less is known about foot biomechanics, especially in patients treated for TAFs. The aim of this study was to analyze segmental foot mobility and joint coupling during the gait of ...
Characterizing patients hospitalized without an acute care indication: A retrospective cohort study.
BackgroundHospitalizations by patients who do not meet acute inpatient criteria are common and overburden healthcare systems. Studies have characterized these alternate levels of care (ALC) but have not delineated prolonged (pALC) versus short ALC (sALC) stays.ObjectiveTo descriptively compare pALC and sALC hospitalizations-groups we hypothesize ha...
Paxlovid: A Regulatory Gamble.
MECP2 germline mosaicism plays an important part in the inheritance of Rett syndrome: a study of MECP2 germline mosaicis...
Germline mosaicisms could be inherited to offspring, which considered as "de novo" in most cases. Paternal germline MECP2 mosaicism has been reported in fathers of girls with Rett syndrome (RTT) previously. For further study, we focused on MECP2 germline mosaicism in males, not only RTT fathers. Thirty-two fathers of RTT girls with MECP2 pathogenic...
Partial Femoral Diaphysectomy With Vastus Lateralis Interposition in a Paraplegic Patient With Severely Debilitating Hip...
We present the case of a 56-year-old male unable to sit because of an ankylosed right hip. This ankylosis originated from combined neurogenic heterotopic ossifications (NHO) and traumatic heterotopic ossifications (THO) as a result of a road traffic accident. Because of multiple ossifications, the proximity of neurovascular structures, and chronic ...
Body mass index and occupational accidents among health care workers in a large university hospital
INTRODUCTION: Obesity is associated with a number of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases and cancers. The association of obesity with occupational accidents has been suggested although the evidence is less convincing. The objective of the study is to analyse the relationship between BMI values and ergonomic accidents in a large Univers...
Preterm birth during the COVID-19 pandemic: more, less, or just the same?
OBJECTIVES: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and its mitigation measures have been associated with changes in preterm birth (PTB) incidences. The objective of this paper is to summarize and comment on the literature on COVID-19 and PTB and to compare PTB incidence between 2019 (pre-COVID-19) and 2020 (COVID-19) in three Belgian tertiary care hospital...
