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A qualitative study examining the impact of multidrug-resistant organism (MDRO) carriage on the daily lives of carriers and parents of carriers with experiences of hospital precautionary measures

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 2022
Background Multidrug-resistant organism (MDRO) carriage may have an adverse impact on the quality of life of carriers, in particular those who have experienced hospital precautionary measures.
Ruth Baron, Renske Eilers, Manon R. Haverkate, Sabiena G. Feenstra, Aura Timen   +4 more
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Citizen involvement in COVID-19 contact tracing with digital tools: a qualitative study to explore citizens’ perspectives and needs

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background Contact tracing (CT) is a key strategy when dealing with outbreaks of infectious diseases such as COVID-19. The scale of the COVID-19 pandemic has often left public health professionals (PHPs), who are responsible for the execution of CT ...
A. van der Meer, Y. B. Helms, R. Baron, R. Crutzen, A. Timen, M. E. E. Kretzschmar, M. L. Stein, N. Hamdiui   +7 more
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Online respondent-driven detection for enhanced contact tracing of close-contact infectious diseases: benefits and barriers for public health practice

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background Online respondent-driven detection (RDD) is a novel method of case finding that can enhance contact tracing (CT). However, the advantages and challenges of RDD for CT have not yet been investigated from the perspective of public health ...
Yannick B. Helms, Nora Hamdiui, Renske Eilers, Christian Hoebe, Nicole Dukers-Muijrers, Hans van den Kerkhof, Aura Timen, Mart L. Stein   +7 more
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Patient and public engagement in decision-making regarding infectious disease outbreak management: an integrative review

BMJ Global Health, 2021
Introduction Worldwide, people experience the effects of infectious disease outbreaks on a regular basis. These effects vary from direct impact of the virus on health, to indirect impact of control measures on day-to-day life.
Sophie Kemper, MEJ Bongers, ENE Slok, LJ Schoonmade, JFH Kupper, A Timen   +5 more
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Dutch public health professionals’ perspectives and needs regarding citizen involvement in COVID-19 contact tracing through digital support tools: an exploratory qualitative study

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background Contact tracing (CT) is an important, but resource-intensive tool to control outbreaks of communicable diseases. Under pandemic circumstances, public health services may not have sufficient resources at their disposal to effectively facilitate
Y. B. Helms, M. L. Stein, N. Hamdiui, A. van der Meer, R. Baron, R. Eilers, R. Crutzen, M. E. E. Kretzschmar, A. Timen   +8 more
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Voices of society: the emergence of civil-society practices aiming to engage in the management of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands

BMJ Global Health, 2023
During the COVID-19 pandemic, public groups mobilised themselves in civil-society engagement practices (CSEPs) aiming to improve or suggest alternative epidemic management.
Sophie Kemper, Aura Timen, Renate van den Broek, Sarah van Hameren, J Frank H Kupper, Marloes E J Bongers, Esther de Weger, Marion de Vries   +7 more
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S+Net: extending functional coordination with extra-functional semantics [PDF]

, 2013
This technical report introduces S+Net, a compositional coordination language for streaming networks with extra-functional semantics. Compositionality simplifies the specification of complex parallel and distributed applications; extra-functional ...
Grelck, Clemens, Kirner, Raimund, Penczek, Frank, Poss, Raphael, Shafarenko, Alex, Verstraaten, Merijn   +5 more
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Distributed Collision-Free Motion Coordination on a Sphere: A Conic Control Barrier Function Approach [PDF]

, 2020
This letter studies a distributed collision avoidance control problem for a group of rigid bodies on a sphere. A rigid body network, consisting of multiple rigid bodies constrained to a spherical surface and an interconnection topology, is first ...
Ames, Aaron D., Egerstedt, Magnus, Ibuki, Tatsuya, Wilson, Sean   +3 more
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The development of a culturally sensitive educational video: How to facilitate informed decisions on cervical cancer screening among Turkish‐ and Moroccan‐Dutch women

Health Expectations, 2022
Background In the Netherlands, all women aged 30–60 years are invited to participate in the national cervical cancer screening programme, which is aimed at early detection and treatment of precancerous lesions.
Nora Hamdiui, Martine P. A. Bouman, Mart L. Stein, Rik Crutzen, Damla Keskin, Amina Afrian, Jim E. vanSteenbergen, Maria E. T. C. van denMuijsenbergh, Aura Timen   +8 more
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Burden of mosquito-borne diseases across rural versus urban areas in Cameroon between 2002 and 2021: prospective for community-oriented vector management approaches

Parasites & Vectors, 2023
Background Over the past two decades, Cameroon has recorded one of the highest rates of urban population growth in sub-Saharan Africa. It is estimated that more than 67% of Cameroon's urban population lives in slums, and the situation is far from ...
Leo Dilane Alenou, Philippe Nwane, Lili Ranaise Mbakop, Michael Piameu, Wolfgang Ekoko, Stanislas Mandeng, Elisabeth Ngo Bikoy, Jean Claude Toto, Hugues Onguina, Josiane Etang   +9 more
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