Browsing Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine by Subject "Europe"
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Association Between Dementia, Change in Home-Care Use, and Depressive Symptoms During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study Using Data from Three Cohort Studies.
(2024)BACKGROUND: The emotional impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on people with dementia has been quantified. However, little is known about the impact of change in home-care use owing to the pandemic. ... -
Beckwith Wiedemann syndrome: A population-based study on prevalence, prenatal diagnosis, associated anomalies and survival in Europe.
(2018-09)Beckwith Wiedemann syndrome is a complex developmental disorder characterized by somatic overgrowth, macroglossia, abdominal wall defects, neonatal hypoglycemia, and predisposition to embryonal tumors. We present epidemiological ... -
Epidemiology of septo-optic dysplasia with focus on prevalence and maternal age - A EUROCAT study.
(2018-09)Septo-optic nerve dysplasia is a rare congenital anomaly with optic nerve hypoplasia, pituitary hormone deficiencies and midline developmental defects of the brain. The clinical findings are visual impairment, hypopituitarism ... -
EUROmediCAT signal detection: a systematic method for identifying potential teratogenic medication.
(2016-10)AIMS: Information about medication safety in pregnancy is inadequate. We aimed to develop a signal detection methodology to routinely identify unusual associations between medications and congenital anomalies using data ... -
EUROmediCAT signal detection: an evaluation of selected congenital anomaly-medication associations.
(2016-10)AIMS: To evaluate congenital anomaly (CA)-medication exposure associations produced by the new EUROmediCAT signal detection system and determine which require further investigation. METHODS: Data from 15 EUROCAT registries ... -
European position statement on lung cancer screening.
(2017-12)Lung cancer screening with low-dose CT can save lives. This European Union (EU) position statement presents the available evidence and the major issues that need to be addressed to ensure the successful implementation of ... -
Factors associated with satisfaction of inpatient psychiatric care: a cross country comparison.
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2019-01-30)BACKGROUND: Patient satisfaction is a key indicator of inpatient care quality and is associated with clinical outcomes following admission. Different patient characteristics have been inconsistently linked with satisfaction. ... -
Health care for irregular migrants: pragmatism across Europe: a qualitative study.
(2012-02-16)BACKGROUND: Health services in Europe face the challenge of delivering care to a heterogeneous group of irregular migrants (IM). There is little empirical evidence on how health professionals cope with this challenge. This ... -
Images of psychiatry and psychiatrists.
(2015-01)OBJECTIVE: This study surveyed medical teaching faculty to determine their attitudes toward psychiatry and psychiatrists. METHOD: We conducted a multisite survey of a probability sample of 1057 teaching medical faculty ... -
The impact of mammography screening programmes on incidence of advanced breast cancer in Europe: a literature review.
(2018-09-03)BACKGROUND: Observational studies have reported conflicting results on the impact of mammography service screening programmes on the advanced breast cancer rate (ABCR), a correlation that was firmly established in randomized ... -
The impact of routine outcome measurement on treatment processes in community mental health care: approach and methods of the MECCA study.
(2002-07)Three issues characterise the background to the MECCA study: A) Throughout Europe, most patients with severe forms of psychotic disorders are cared for in the community. The challenge now is to make processes in community ... -
Parkinson's disease in GTP cyclohydrolase 1 mutation carriers.
(2014-09)GTP cyclohydrolase 1, encoded by the GCH1 gene, is an essential enzyme for dopamine production in nigrostriatal cells. Loss-of-function mutations in GCH1 result in severe reduction of dopamine synthesis in nigrostriatal ... -
Predictors of length of stay in psychiatric inpatient units: Does their effect vary across countries?
(2018-02)BACKGROUND: Previous studies in individual countries have identified inconsistent predictors of length of stay (LoS) in psychiatric inpatient units. This may reflect methodological inconsistencies across studies or true ... -
Predictors of personal continuity of care of patients with severe mental illness: A comparison across five European countries.
(2018-12-21)BACKGROUND: In Europe, at discharge from a psychiatric hospital, patients with severe mental illness may be exposed to one of two main care approaches: personal continuity, where one clinician is responsible for in- and ... -
Prevalence of valproate syndrome in Europe from 2005 to 2014: A registry based multi-centre study.
(2018-09)Women with epilepsy need to continue to take anticonvulsants during their pregnancies to prevent seizures from occurring. Since the 1980's, it has been known that the use of valproate (an anticonvulsant) in the first ... -
To which countries do European psychiatric trainees want to move to and why?
(2017-09)BACKGROUND: There is a shortage of psychiatrists worldwide. Within Europe, psychiatric trainees can move between countries, which increases the problem in some countries and alleviates it in others. However, little is known ... -
Trends in congenital anomalies in Europe from 1980 to 2012.
(2018)BACKGROUND: Surveillance of congenital anomalies is important to identify potential teratogens. METHODS: This study analysed the prevalence of 61 congenital anomaly subgroups (excluding chromosomal) in 25 population-based ... -
Tuberculosis in people of Ukrainian origin in the European Union and the European Economic Area, 2019 to 2022.
(European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, 2024-03-21)Approximately five million Ukrainians were displaced to the EU/EEA following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. While tuberculosis (TB) notification rates per 100,000 Ukrainians in the EU/EEA remained stable, the number of ...