Publications by authors named "Lionel Larcin"
Article Synopsis
- - The study examines how often pregnant women in Belgium are prescribed antipsychotic, antidepressant, and antiepileptic drugs, and how sociodemographic factors may influence these prescription patterns and their correlation with congenital anomalies.
- - Researchers analyzed data from over 828,000 live births, finding a decrease in medication use as pregnancy progressed, with mothers of lower sociodemographic status being more likely to use these drugs.
- - The findings highlight a significant risk of congenital anomalies associated with the use of antiepileptics, specifically valproate during the first trimester, indicating a need for better awareness and interventions for at-risk pregnant women.
Background: Addressing the challenges of asthma has involved various approaches, including the examination of costs associated with hospitalization. However, there is a limited number of studies that have investigated the actual expenses incurred by hospital settings in caring for asthma patients. This study aims to describe the costs, predictors, and breakdown of expenditures in different categories.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To determine the perceived barriers to the implementation of research findings in clinical practice among critical care nurses and allied health professionals.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted using an online questionnaire sent to critical care nurses and allied health professionals in French-speaking countries. The primary objective was the identification and grading of perceived barriers to implementation of research findings into clinical practice, using a previously validated tool (French version of the BARRIERS scale).
Purpose: This study aimed to describe the implementation of a new retrospective Belgian national cohort of pregnant women, the Belgian Medication Exposure during Pregnancy (BeMeP).
Methods: We linked the national dispensing data to birth and death certificates and hospital stay data for a 7-year period between 2010 and 2016 for the first time in Belgium. We presented the characteristics of pregnancy events associated with the mothers enrolled in the linkage study.
Background: Given the variability of intensive care unit (ICU) costs in different countries and the importance of this information for guiding clinicians to effective treatment and to the organisation of ICUs at the national level, it is of value to gather data on this topic for analysis at the national level in Belgium. The objectives of the study were to assess the total cost of ICUs and the factors that influence the cost of ICUs in hospitals in Belgium.
Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study using data collected from the ICUs of 17 Belgian hospitals from January 01 to December 31, 2018.
Purpose: To investigate trends and regional variations in uterotonics dispensed around birth between 2003 and 2018 in Belgium.
Methods: Data, including outpatient and inpatient prescriptions were extracted from a nationally representative prescription database. The prevalence of uterotonics dispensed during a period including the 7 days before birth, the delivery day and the 7 days after birth was computed over three 4-year-long study periods from 2003 to 2018.
Introduction: Hospitals with better nursing resources report more favourable patient outcomes with almost no difference in cost as compared to those with worse nursing resources. The aim of this study was to assess the association between nursing cost per intensive care unit bed and patient outcomes (mortality, readmission, and length of stay).
Methodology: This was a retrospective cohort study using data collected from the intensive care units of 17 Belgian hospitals from January 01 to December 31, 2018.
Purpose: The aim of this study was to describe trends in medication prescriptions dispensed during pregnancy in Belgium using administrative healthcare database records from a representative sample of the Belgian population.
Methods: Pregnant women were identified with reimbursement codes associated with the delivery of a baby. Data were extracted for three study periods, each over 3 years: 2003-2005, 2009-2011, and 2015-2017.