Patient-oriented research projects and supports

EPID

-BELGIUM–HF Six-month prospective registry of a daily telemonitoring of heart rate, blood pressure, and weight to predict heart failure worsening in patients followed by general physicians in Belgium. (www.belgium-hf.be)
Collaboration with Société scientifique de médecine générale (SSMG), Brussels Heart Center asbl, Touring asbl, Vitalsys sa, Belgacom mobile sa.
J Col, J Ambroise, S Vercauteren, M Castadot, M Vanhalewijn, K Sawadogo 

-Progression-free survival rate as the main end-point for designing phase II cancer clinical trials.
Collaboration with European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancers (EORTC).
J Francart, R Sylvester

-Statistical models for backscattered ultrasonic data in order to develop a non-invasive diagnostic procedure to detect ovarian cancers.
Collaboration with AMD HistoScanningTM.
E Vaes, D Nir

-The beta distribution for quality control of fluorescence in situ hybridation (FISH) diagnostic test.
Collaboration with IREC-SLUC.
M Santiago, H Poirel, G Ameye

- Iron overload in children undergoing cancer treatments.
Collaboration with IREC-PEDI.
M De Ville de Goyet, B Brichard

-AdvISER-PYRO: Amplicon Identication using SparsE Representation of PYROsequencing signal.
Collaboration with IREC-CTMA
J Ambroise, JL Gala

-Design of a multicenter crossover phase III trial to compare the effect of two resins on the potassium reduction in patients with renal dialysis.
Collaboration with IREC-NEFR
L Labriola, M Jadoul

- Reliability and validity of a kinematic spine model during active trunk movements in healthy subjects and non-specific chronic low back pain patients.
Collaboration with IoNS
B Hidalgo, C Detrembleur

-Setting up a Center of applied statistics (CESA) and development of a PhD school to support clinical research at the Universidad Mayor San Simon, Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Collaboration and financial support from ARES-CCD (www.ares-ac.be)
W Trujilo

-Development of a PhD school to support clinical- and epidemiological research at the University of Medicine Pham Ngoc Thach, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Collaboration and financial support from ARES-CCD (www.ares-ac.be)
D The Nguyen