FDI Screening in Belgium: It Is Complicated

Volvo IT Belgium VINST

For the Third International Business Process Intelligence Challenge (BPIC'13), a collection of real-life event logs from Volvo IT Belgium is analyzed. The provided logs contain events from an incident and problem handling system which is called VINST. This report presents results related to the following investigations. First, an openminded exploratory analysis of the given event logs and secon...

Neonatal haemoglobinopathy screening in Belgium.

BACKGROUND A neonatal haemoglobinopathy screening programme was implemented in Brussels more than a decade ago and in Liège 5 years ago; the programme was adapted to the local situation. METHODS Neonatal screening for haemoglobinopathies was universal, performed using liquid cord blood and an isoelectric focusing technique. All samples with abnormalities underwent confirmatory testing. Major ...

Screening colonoscopy: is it time?

Food Security—A Commentary: What Is It and Why Is It So Complicated?

Every year over 10 million people die of hunger and hunger related diseases. Nearly six million of these are children under the age of five; that is one child's death approximately every six seconds. Understanding how this still occurs amid the ever increasing social enlightenment of the 21st century-and under the auspices of a vigilant global developmental community-is one of the key challenge...

Screening for cancer: is it cost effective?

Screening is defined as the presumptive identification of unrecognized disease or defect by the application of tests, examinations, or other procedures that can be applied rapidly and carried out in the general population or in individuals at high risk. When considering immunochemical or biochemical cancer markers, it might be more appropriate to describe these tests as risk-factor monitors and...