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Background: Medication management demands information exchange between healthcare professionals of intra- and transmural care., Aim: The goal of this study is to determine if a paper medication overview improves the information exchange between healthcare professionals of primary and secondary care in the South Eastern part of Limburg., Methods: A paper medication overview was implemented in this region. A pre and post survey were used to gather healthcare professionals opinions about the potential of the paper medication overview. The expectations, experiences and the use of the medication overview were gathered., Results: The most important barriers are the time investment of healthcare professionals and patient involvement. A paper medication overview appears to be mostly used to reduce medication errors. Few healthcare professionals see potential in the paper medication overview as a tool to improve communication. An electronic medication overview yields more possibilities as well for intramural care as for transmural care., Conclusion: A paper medication overview is perceived as a tool to reduce medication errors. Although it is very time consuming to keep the paper medication overview up-to date, it yields a lot of possibilities to improve information exchange between different kinds of healthcare professionals. Patient involvement is crucial to establish the flow of healthcare information.

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The paper focuses on verbal idioms. On the one hand, drawing on data from a small corpus study dedicated to French idioms and their Dutch translations, we argue that contrastive linguistics may function as a discovery procedure of certain typological features. Thus we show that syntactic structures with several prepositional phrases as argument are common in Dutch idioms, whereas they are rare in French. On the other, we adopt a variationnist approach with respect to French by studying verbal idioms in Belgian French, showing that although the overwhelming majority of idioms are common to the francophonie, Belgium, like all the other regions, has its stock of unique fixed expressions with lexical and syntactic features of its own. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with different issues related to the preposition endéans [within], such as its origin, geographical distribution, meaning, use and morphosyntactic features. Endéans is traditionally described by two qualifying adjectives: "Belgian" and "temporal". Nevertheless, its usage exceeds the territory of Francophone Belgium and, rarely, the domain of time as well, particularly in the past. Two questionnaire researches focused on this matter were conducted among native speakers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article presents Résumés/Abstracts, which includes Between 2005 and 2014, the size of the middle income classes changed heterogeneously within European countries. She is maintained in France, Belgium and the Netherlands, countries characterized by mechanisms setting wages at a relatively aggregate level and maintaining a fairly generous welfare state.

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Early discussion on palliative care with patients with advanced, progressive or terminal disease is difficult regardless patient's life expectancy. In Belgium, a Royal Decree sets the criteria to identify patients with palliative needs. For that purpose, the Palliative Care Indicators Tool (PICT) is proposed. This 3-step identification tool designed for physicians begins with the so-called surprise question, «Would you be surprised if your patient died in the next 6 to 12 months?». The second and third steps examine the fragility and incurability criteria, respectively. The surprise question intends to encourage the clinician to trust his/her intuition and to promote a reflection on patient's needs. The PICT facilitates communication between caregivers. Also, it makes possible early thinking about advanced care planning. Hence, it allows patients to receive palliative care in due time. In this paper, after reviewing the background of the surprise question, we shall examine the benefits and limitations of the surprise question.

High speed sequencing is revolutionizing the various genetic tests and in particular preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), opening the doors to an increasingly efficient predictive medicine. PGD itself is not new, and the various legistations have been dealing with it for some twenty years. National ethics committees, for their part, have widely debated antenatal tests in the context of medically assisted procreation. This paper examines the work of these Committees on PGD in three States, France, Belgium and Switzerland, in order to highlight their similarities and differences. The subject has also been raised and discussed in the context of the États généraux de la bioéthique which took place this year in France and, given the progresses made recently, they have echoed certain demands of civil society. However, in France, caution continues to dominate., (© 2019 médecine/sciences – Inserm.)

Health Literacy (HL) is defined as «the knowledge, motivation, and competences to access, understand, appraise and apply health information in order to make judgments and take decisions in everyday life concerning health care, disease prevention and health promotion to maintain or improve quality of life». This concept begins to be recognized as a priority area for action at political level in Belgium. Indeed, a limited HL may affect health by leading, for example, with poorer management of chronic diseases, more hospital admissions and premature deaths. This paper addresses the question of HL evaluation, improvement interventions as well as the many challenges that remain in this area. HL seems fundamental to the development of better health management. It would allow patients to play a more active role in health care, to involve all health stakeholders, and to contribute to a more sustainable health system. Improving HL could allow better equal access to health care.e.

The paper presents the research on medicine in Greco-Roman Egypt conducted in the last forty years at the Centre de Documentation de Papyrologie Littéraire (CEDOPAL) at the University of Liège. It describes the main results obtained by deciphering, editing, translating and commenting Greek and Latin medical papyri, be they literary, documentary or magical.

Purpose: The objectives of this paper is to study the prevalence of breastfeeding in Brussels, to assess whether the targets of the Maternal and Child Health program (MCH) were met (prevalence's of breastfeeding of 85 and 75% of exclusive breastfeeding) and finally to identify factors associated with exclusive breastfeeding at the birth., Materials and Method: The cross-sectional survey is representative of children 18 to 24 months living in Brussels. Data on breastfeeding are anamnestic and retrospective. A face to face questionnaire was administered by trained investigators, 16 questions about breastfeeding as well socio-demographic information were collected from 544 mothers. The survey took place in 2012., Results: At the birth, 83.3% (95% CI 80.1-86.4) of mothers exclusively breastfed and 9.7% of the mothers (7.3-12.2) partially. When discharged from maternity unit, 80.9% (77.6-84.2) of mothers breastfed exclusively and 9.7% (7.3-12.2) partially. When fitting a logistic model, predictors associated with exclusive breastfeeding at the birth were gestation, type of birth, father's education level and the main influencing factor was the partner's attitude., Discussion: The targets of the MCH were reached in Brussels. Until now, transversal surveys are the only way of knowing the prevalence and the factors associated with breastfeeding in Brussels. These first representative data on breastfeeding came from the 2012 vaccine coverage survey. Given the primary role of the father in choosing a breastfeeding it is necessary that the father is more often taken into account in regard to the promotion of AM during the prenatal period. A rigorous use of definitions of AM should be systematized.

The Belgian law legalizing euthanasia under strict conditions came into effect September 22, 2002. Any physician performing euthanasia has to complete a registration document and to send it within four days to a federal commission whose mission is to verify that the legal conditions were fulfilled. From September 22, 2002 to December 31, 2013, 8.767 documents have been registered and analyzed by this commission. They are described in six reports referred to Parliament. The present paper analyzes the work of this commission and answers the criticisms concerning its quality and its efficiency. The allegations that clandestine euthanasia's escaping any control are performed are also discussed. In conclusion, it appears that the legal obligations concerning the practice of euthanasia in Belgium are fully effective.