Bert Vaes

Publications

• 2025
• The development of electronic health record-extractable quality indicators for osteoporosis in primary care: A rand-modified Delphi method
• 2024
• Benchmarks for low back pain in general practice in Flanders: electronic audit of INTEGO.
• Associations between subclinical thyroid dysfunction and cardiovascular risk factors according to age and sex.
• Diverse roles of Primary Health Care in COVID-19 vaccination across 28 European countries - Insights from the Eurodata study.
• Assessment of cardiovascular risk with sulfonylurea use in type 2 diabetes mellitus: A retrospective cohort study.
• Associations of heat with diseases and specific symptoms in Flanders, Belgium: An 8-year retrospective study of general practitioner registration data
• Trends in type 2 diabetes medication use and guideline adherence in Belgian primary care (2019-2023).
• Diagnostic accuracy of signs and symptoms in acute coronary syndrome and acute myocardial infarction.
• Development of quality indicators for hypertension, extractable from the electronic health record of the general practitioner: a rand-modified Delphi method
• The Use of COVID-19 Mobile Apps in Connecting Patients with Primary Healthcare in 30 Countries: Eurodata Study.
• Model-based disease mapping using primary care registry data
• Using a general practice research database to assess the spatio-temporal COVID-19 risk.
• Association between non-registration of chronic kidney disease and mortality and cardiovascular outcome: a time-to-event analysis of retrospective primary care data.
• Epidemiology of functional dyspepsia and gastroparesis as diagnosed in Flemish-Belgian primary care: A registry-based study from the Intego database
• Developing a questionnaire to evaluate an automated audit & feedback intervention: a Rand-modified Delphi method
• Primary care indicators for disease burden, monitoring and surveillance of COVID-19 in 31 European countries: Eurodata Study
• Assessing mental health from registry data: What is the best proxy?
• How to Evaluate Online Education for General Practitioners: Development of a Tailored Questionnaire for Heart Failure Education
• 2023
• Clinical pathway of COVID-19 patients in primary health care in 30 European countries: Eurodata study
• The role of primary health care in long-term care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic in 30 European countries: a retrospective descriptive study (Eurodata study)
• The optimal healthy ranges of thyroid function defined by the risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality: systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis
• A longitudinal transition imputation model for categorical data applied to a large registry dataset
• Pneumococcal vaccination coverage and adherence to recommended dosing schedules in adults: a repeated cross-sectional study of the INTEGO morbidity registry
• Population health management in Belgium: a call-to-action and case study
• Community pharmacists' perceptions on multidisciplinary heart failure care: an exploratory qualitative study
• Trends in prevalence and incidence of antibiotic prescribing and (non)serious infections in children in general practice in Flanders, Belgium (2002-2022): a registry-based, retrospective, longitudinal cohort study
• The health and economic burden of musculoskeletal disorders in Belgium from 2013 to 2018
• Trends in oral anticoagulant prescription in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation in Flanders and the impact of switching patients from vitamin K antagonists to DOACS in terms of the burden caused by complications of the disease: a registry-based study
• Mixed-methods evaluation of a multifaceted heart failure intervention in general practice: the OSCAR-HF pilot study
• Predictors for unplanned hospital admissions in community dwelling adults: A dynamic cohort study.
• Trends in the registration of anxiety in Belgian primary care from 2000 to 2021: a registry-based study
• Integration of Chronic Care in a Fragmented Health Care System; Comment on "Integration or Fragmentation of Health Care? Examining Policies and Politics in a Belgian Case Study"
• The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Registration and Care Provision of Mental Health Problems in General Practice: Registry-Based Study
• 2022
• An exploration of under-registration of chronic kidney disease stages 3-5 in Belgian general practices using logistic regression
• A standardised physical performance test versus the frailty phenotype as predictors of adverse events in octogenarians
• Automated audit & feedback as a tool to implement antibiotic stewardship in primary care using the Intego database
• Evolution of benzodiazepine receptor agonist prescriptions in general practice: A registry-based study
• Burden of COVID-19 on primary care in Belgium: a prospective nationwide observational study from March to August 2020
• Incidence rates and trends of childhood urinary tract infections and antibiotic prescribing: registry-based study in general practices (2000 to 2020)
• Trends in the epidemiology of depression and comorbidities from 2000 to 2019 in Belgium
• Development of primary care quality indicators for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease using a Delphi-derived method
• Incorporating Baseline Outcome Data in Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis of Non-randomized Studies
• Trends in prevalence and incidence of registered dementia and trends in multimorbidity among patients with dementia in general practice in Flanders, Belgium, 2000-2021: a registry-based, retrospective, longitudinal cohort study
• The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the incidence of diseases and the provision of primary care: A registry-based study.
• 2021
• Pneumococcal vaccination prevented severe LRTIs in adults: a causal inference framework applied in registry data
• Machine learning optimization of an electronic health record audit for heart failure in primary care
• Impact of Heat Waves on Hospitalisation and Mortality in Nursing Homes: A Case-Crossover Study
• An automated data cleaning method for Electronic Health Records by incorporating clinical knowledge
• Association of Thyroid Dysfunction With Cognitive Function An Individual Participant Data Analysis
• The effect of a case-finding app on the detection rate of atrial fibrillation compared with opportunistic screening in primary care patients: protocol for a cluster randomized trial
• Implementing standards of care for heart failure patients in general practice - the IMPACT-B study protocol
• Machine learning optimization of an electronic health record audit to improve heart failure identification in primary care
• Prevalence of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease, Heart Failure, and Chronic Kidney Disease in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Primary Care Research Network-based Study
• The effect of automated audit and feedback on data completeness in the electronic health record of the general physician: protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial
• A Heart Rate Monitoring App (FibriCheck) for Atrial Fibrillation in General Practice: Pilot Usability Study
• Cellular Immune Phenotypes and Worsening Scores of Frailty-Associated Parameters Over an 18-Month Period in the Very Old
• Polypharmacy and excessive polypharmacy in community-dwelling middle aged and aged adults between 2011 and 2015
• Cardiologists' perceptions on multidisciplinary collaboration in heart failure care - a qualitative study
• Fast and optimal algorithm for case-control matching using registry data: application on the antibiotics use of colorectal cancer patients
• Use of antibiotics and colorectal cancer risk: a primary care nested case-control study in Belgium
• Impact of primary care involvement and setting on multidisciplinary heart failure management: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• Burden of infections on older patients presenting to general practice: a registry-based study
• Comorbidity burden in the first three years after diagnosis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis or spondyloarthritis: a general practice registry-based study
• 2020
• Clinical decision support improves the appropriateness of laboratory test ordering in primary care without increasing diagnostic error: the ELMO cluster randomized trial
• Coding Systems for Clinical Decision Support: Theoretical and Real-World Comparative Analysis
• Impact of an extended audit on identifying heart failure patients in general practice: baseline results of the OSCAR-HF pilot study
• Low cholesterol levels are associated with a high mortality risk in older adults without statins therapy: An externally validated cohort study
• The incidence of lower respiratory tract infections and pneumococcal vaccination status in adults in flemish primary care
• Malnutrition risk and its association with adverse outcomes in a Belgian cohort of community-dwelling adults aged 80 years and over
• Predictive Accuracy of Frailty Tools for Adverse Outcomes in a Cohort of Adults 80 Years and Older: A Decision Curve Analysis
• Optimal weighted estimation versus Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel
• The effect of electronic audits and feedback in primary care and factors that contribute to their effectiveness: a systematic review
• The epidemiology of knee osteoarthritis in general practice: a registry-based study
• Biomarkers versus traditional risk factors to predict cardiovascular events in very old adults: cross-validated prospective cohort study
• 2019
• Trends in multimorbidity and polypharmacy in the Flemish-Belgian population between 2000 and 2015
• Infectious burden in older patients presenting to general practice
• Fast two-stage estimator for clustered count data with overdispersion
• Optimising standards of care of heart failure in general practice the OSCAR-HF pilot study protocol
• Patient Characteristics and General Practitioners' Advice to Stop Statins in Oldest-Old Patients: a Survey Study Across 30 Countries
• Defining quality indicators for heart failure in general practice
• General practitioners' perceptions about their role in current and future heart failure care: an exploratory qualitative study
• Think-aloud study about the diagnosis of chronic heart failure in Belgian general practice
• Low thyroid function is not associated with an accelerated deterioration in renal function
• Mobile Phone-Based Use of the Photoplethysmography Technique to Detect Atrial Fibrillation in Primary Care: Diagnostic Accuracy Study of the FibriCheck App
• The Burden of Comorbidity in Patients with RA, PSA or SPA in a General Practice Registry
• INCIDENCE OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS, PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS AND SPONDYLOARTHRITIS AND THEIR ASSOCIATED COMORBIDITIES IN A BELGIAN GP REGISTRY
• Burden of heart failure in Flemish general practices: a registry-based study in the Intego database
• Assessing testing rates for viral hepatitis B and C by general practitioners in Flanders, Belgium: a registry-based study
• The health and economic impact of acute gastroenteritis in Belgium, 2010-2014
• 2018
• Diagnosing Atrial Fibrillation Based on the Qualitative Analysis of a Smartphone Derived Ppg Waveform
• Atrial Fibrillation Diagnosis Based on a Smartphone Derived Ppg Waveform: A Diagnostic Accuracy Study versus Single-Lead
• Time trends in statin use and incidence of recurrent cardiovascular events in secondary prevention between 1999 and 2013: a registry-based study
• Is there a correlation between an eGFR slope measured over a 5-year period and incident cardiovascular events in the following 5 years among a Flemish general practice population: a retrospective cohort study
• Interventions for frail community-dwelling older adults have no significant effect on adverse outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• The Relation Between Thyroid Function and Anemia: A Pooled Analysis of Individual Participant Data
• Screening and Linkage to Care for Hepatitis C Viral Infection in the General Population in Belgium
• Clinical Validation of Heart Rate Apps: Mixed-Methods Evaluation Study (vol 5, e129, 2017)
• Prognostic value of short-term decline of forced expiratory volume in 1 s over height cubed (FEV1/Ht(3)) in a cohort of adults aged 80 and over
• The OSCAR-HF Pilot study: Improvement for patients with heart failure needed
• Accuracy, user-friendliness and usefulness of the Cobas h232 point-of-care test for NT-proBNP in primary care
• Methods to identify heart failure patients in general practice and their impact on patient characteristics: A systematic review
• 2017
• Correlates of dyspnoea and its association with adverse outcomes in a cohort of adults aged 80 and over
• Association between traditional cardiovascular risk factors and mortality in the oldest old: untangling the role of frailty
• Factors associated with Prolonged Inaction in the hypoglycaemic treatment in people with non-insulin dependent Type 2 Diabetes and elevated glycated haemoglobin: A registry-based cohort study
• CD4: 8 ratio above 5 is associated with all-cause mortality in CMV-seronegative very old women: results from the BELFRAIL study
• Clinical Validation of Heart Rate Apps: Mixed-Methods Evaluation Study
• Validation of a new mortality risk prediction model for people 65 years and older in northwest Russia: The Crystal risk score
• Estimating the prevalence of diabetes mellitus and thyroid disorders using medication data in Flanders, Belgium
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and associated health problems: Insights from a primary care registry
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and its comorbidities: What comes first?
• Anticholinergic Exposure in a cohort of adults aged 80 years and over Associations of the MARANTE scale with mortality and hospitalisation
• 2016
• Short Physical Performance Battery and all-cause mortality: systematic review and meta-analysis
• Too many, too few, or too unsafe? Impact of inappropriate prescribing on mortality, and hospitalisation in a cohort of community-dwelling oldest old
• Improving care for heart failure patients in primary care, GPs' perceptions: a qualitative evidence synthesis
• Diagnostic rules and algorithms for the diagnosis of non-acute heart failure in patients 80 years of age and older: a diagnostic accuracy and validation study
• Too Many, Too Few, Or Too Unsafe? Impact Of Inappropriate Prescribing On Mortality, And Hospitalisation In Community-Dwelling Adults, Aged 80 And Older
• STOPP 2 versus EU(7)-PIM: Comparing Prevalence and Impact of Inappropriate Prescribing on Mortality and Hospitalisation
• A high sense of coherence as protection against adverse health outcomes in patients aged 80 years and older
• Polypharmacy in a Belgian cohort of community-dwelling oldest old (80+)
• Kan een dalende bloeddruk de nierfunctie bij ouderen verslechteren?
• Should we keep on measuring multimorbidity?
• Empowerment en zelfmanagement bij hartfalen. Implementatie in de praktijk.
• Evaluating the scripts and thresholds of general practitioners for diagnosing heart failure in elderly people
• Mortality, hospitalisation, institutionalisation in community-dwelling oldest old: The impact of medication
• Association between atrial fibrillation, anticoagulation, risk of cerebrovascular events and multimorbidity in general practice: a registry-based study
• Treatment intentions of general practitioners regarding hypertension in the oldest old: a vignette study
• 2015
• Detection of potentially inappropriate prescribing in the very old: cross-sectional analysis of the data from the BELFRAIL observational cohort study
• Prevalence and Prognostic Impact of Valve Area-Gradient Patterns in Patients ≥80 Years With Moderate-to-Severe Aortic Stenosis (from the Prospective BELFRAIL Study)
• Interleukin-6 as a first-rated serum inflammatory marker to predict mortality and hospitalization in the oldest old: A regression and CART approach in the BELFRAIL study
• POLYPHARMACY IN A BELGIAN COHORT OF COMMUNITY-DWELLING OLDEST OLD: BASELINE OBSERVATIONS AND ASSOCIATED RISK FACTORS
• General practitioners’ judgement of chronic heart failure in the oldest old: Insights from the BELFRAIL study
• General practitioners' judgment of chronic heart failure in the oldest old. Insights from the BELFRAIL study
• The relationship of multimorbidity with disability and frailty in the oldest patients: A cross-sectional analysis of three measures of multimorbidity in the BELFRAIL cohort
• Multimorbidity measures were poor predictors of adverse events in patients aged≥ 80 years: a prospective cohort study
• CD4:8 Ratio > 5 Is Associated With a Dominant Naive T-Cell Phenotype and Impaired Physical Functioning in CMV-Seropositive Very Elderly People: Results From the BELFRAIL Study
• Nieuwe orale anticoagulantia: wanneer gebruiken in de huisartspraktijk?
• Respiratory function and its predictive value for health related outcomes in the BELFRAIL cohort
• Multimorbiditeit: een complex fenomeen
• No relation between CMV infection and mortality in the oldest old: results from the Belfrail study
• Predictors of poor-quality spirometry in two cohorts of older adults in Russia and Belgium: a cross-sectional study
• Short-term prognostic value of forced expiratory volume in 1 second divided by height cubed in a prospective cohort of people 80 years and older
• 2014
• The short-term prognostic value of forced expiratory volume in 1 second divided by height cubed (FEV1.Ht< /SUP>-3< //SUP>) in a prospective cohort of people 80 years and older
• Drug prescriptions unadapted to the renal function in patients aged 80 years and older (a.)
• Ma rk &kb The short-te prognostic value of forced expiratory volume in 1 second divided by height cubed (FENT.Ht-3) in a prospective cohort of people 8o years and older
• Muscle Strength and Physical Performance as Predictors of Mortality, Hospitalization, and Disability in the Oldest Old
• The glomerular filtration rate estimated by new and old equations as a predictor of important outcomes in elderly patients
• Significance of serum immune markers in identification of global functional impairment in the oldest old: cross-sectional results from the BELFRAIL study
• The relationship between physical performance and cardiac function in an elderly Russian cohort
• The diagnostic accuracy of the MyDiagnostick to detect atrial fibrillation in primary care
• 2013
• The prevalence of sarcopenia in very old individuals according to the European consensus definition: insights from the BELFRAIL study
• The relationship between grip strength and muscle mass (MM), inflammatory biomarkers and physical performance in community-dwelling very old persons
• Value of Adding Natriuretic Peptides and Electrocardiographic Findings to Assess the Presence of Cardiac Dysfunction in Patients ≥ 80 Years of Age
• CD4/CD8 ratio > 5 is associated with a higher proportion of naïve CD8 and CD4 T-cells and an impaired physical functioning in the very elderly: results from the BELFRAIL study
• The influence of renal function on vitamin d metabolism in the very elderly
• A more late-differentiated CD8 compartment is associated with a higher anti-CMV neutralising capacity in elderly women
• CD4/CD8 ratio > 5 is associated with a higher proportion of naïve CD8 and CD4 T-cells and an impaired physical functioning in the very elderly: results from the BELFRAIL study
• No relation between vitamin D status and physical performance in the oldest old: results from the Belfrail study
• 2012
• The impact of confounders on the test performance of natriuretic peptides for cardiac dysfunction in subjects aged 80 and older
• Significance of serum immune markers in identification of functional impairment in the oldest old: cross-sectional results from the BELFRAIL study
• Drug use unadapted to the renal function in patients aged 80 years and older
• Relevance of identifying a low renal function in the very elderly
• Response to Dr. Strandberg et al
• Vitamine D tekort bij ouderen
• Cardiac dysfunction in the very elderly: the relevance of natriuretic peptide testing in clinical practice
• Significance of serum immune markers in identification of functional impairment in the oldest old: cross sectional results from the BELFRAIL study
• The prevalence of cardiac dysfunction and the correlation with poor functioning among the very elderly
• The prevalence and detection of chronic kidney disease (CKD)-related metabolic complications as a function of estimated glomerular filtration rate in the oldest old
• 2011
• Associations Between Cytomegalovirus Infection and Functional Impairment and Frailty in the BELFRAIL Cohort
• Estimating GFR in the oldest old: does it matter what equation we use?
• The prevalence of CKD related complications in function of estimated glomerulair filtration rates in the oldest of old, results of the BELFRAIL study
• Influenza and pneumococcal vaccination uptake and determinants
• To screen or not to screen for peripheral arterial disease in subjects aged 80 and over in primary health care: a cross-sectional analysis from the BELFRAIL study
• 2010
• The impact of a nurse-led care programme on events and physical and psychosocial parameters in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: a randomized clinical trial in primary care in Russia
• Diagnostic accuracy of plasma NT-proBNP levels for excluding cardiac abnormalities in the very elderly
• Estimating the GFR in the oldest old: does it matter what formula we use
• The BELFRAIL (BFC80+) study: a population-based prospective cohort study of the very elderly in Belgium
• 2009
• The accuracy of plasma natriuretic peptide levels for diagnosis of cardiac dysfunction and chronic heart failure in community-dwelling elderly: a systematic review
• Clinical relevance of a raised plasma N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide level in a population-based cohort of nonagenarians
• 2008
• Biologie de l'insuffisance cardiauqe en médecine générale
• 2006
• Cardiovasculaire risicofactoren uniform registreren. Voorwaarde voor kritische reflectie over de praktijkvoering
• 2005
• Begeleiding van Rookstop. Verslag van een praktijkproject