Physician's involvement in the smoking cessation process of their patients. Results of a 1998 survey among 4,643 Belgian physicians.

This report relates to the 1,667 responses to a selfadministered mail-back questionnaire sent by BELTA to a sample of 4,643 physicians (17.3% current smokers) who are in professional contact with patients (response rate: 35.9%).

Prevention of transmission of tuberculosis in hospitals; a survey of practices in Belgium, 1995.

In July 1995, a questionnaire survey was made of nosocomial tuberculosis (TB) prevention practices in Belgian hospitals. Of 122 respondents (response rate: 64%), 93% had hospitalized at least one TB patient, and 11% at least one multi-resistant TB case, during 1994. Effective prevention measures were not uniformly applied: only 96% isolated contagious TB patients, and only 84% isolated patients suspected of contagious T.

Tuberculosis in asylum seekers in Belgium. VRGT (Flemish Lung and Tuberculosis Association).

Countries with a low incidence of tuberculosis have recently been faced with the problem of tuberculosis (TB) in asylum seekers from countries with a high TB prevalence. We report on the tuberculosis case notification rate (TBCNR) in Belgium in 1993, and on the results of active screening in a group of asylum seekers. The TBCNR in Belgium in 1993 increased slightly to 14.

Second primary lung cancer in Flanders: frequency, clinical presentation, treatment and prognosis.

Patient and tumour characteristics of 23 patients presenting with a second primary lung cancer were analysed and compared with 534 patients with radically resected stage 1 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). None of these characteristics is associated with a higher occurrence rate for second primary lung cancer. Prognosis in the latter patients is significantly worse than after resection of a 'solitary' NSCLC: the median survival time (MST) after resection of the first tumour is 50 months; after diagnosis of the second tumour only 14 months.

[Tuberculosis: multidrug-resistance in Belgium in 1992 and 1993].

The "Belgian TB Multidrug Resistance Working Group" determined in collaboration with 28 laboratories carrying out antibiograms for mycobacteria, the prevalence and incidence of multidrug resistance in Belgium in 1992-1993. During this period, respectively 14 (1.1%) and 17 (1.