While acute musculoskeletal pain is a frequent complaint, its management is often neglected. An implementation of a nurse-initiated pain protocol based on the algorithm of a Dutch pain management guideline in the emergency department might improve this. A pre-post intervention study was performed as …

Current guidelines on secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease recommend nurse-coordinated care (NCC) as an effective intervention. However, NCC programmes differ widely and the efficacy of NCC components has not been studied. To investigate the efficacy of NCC and its components in secondary prevention …

Patiënten met psychiatrische aandoeningen lopen een sterk verhoogde kans op het ontwikkelen van het metabool syndroom, onder andere vanwege een ongezonde leefstijl en bijwerkingen van psychofarmaca zoals antipsychotica. De belangrijkste behandeling van het metabool syndroom is leefstijlverandering. Systematische …

BACKGROUND: To evaluate the effects of nurse-led multifactorial care to prevent disability in community-living older people. METHODS: In a cluster randomized trail, 11 practices (n = 1,209 participants) were randomized to the intervention group, and 13 practices (n = 1,074 participants) were randomized …

Jaarlijks worden er in Nederland ruim 86.000 patiënten op een Intensive Care (IC) opgenomen en behandeld. Dankzij medisch-technische ontwikkelingen zijn de overlevingskansen van IC-patiënten de afgelopen jaren enorm gestegen. De keerzijde is dat een groot aantal patiënten van de IC wordt ontslagen met …

Background Cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention guidelines stress the importance of smoking cessation and recommend intensive follow-up. To guide the development of such cessation support strategies, we analysed the characteristics that are associated with successful smoking cessation after an acute …

AIMS: To unravel outpatient nurses' views on the role of people with chronic conditions in self-management, nurses' own support role and to establish how these views relate to nurse-led self-management interventions. BACKGROUND: Providing self-management support is a core task of nurses in outpatient …

Verslaving is een chronische, recidiverende hersenziekte, waarbij zowel biologische (waaronder genetische), psychologische als sociale factoren een belangrijke rol spelen in het ontstaan en het voortduren ervan. Psychosociale interventies vormen de basis van de verslavings-behandeling, daarnaast zijn …

Patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) are at high risk of recurrent events. A healthy lifestyle can significantly reduce this risk. A previous trial, Randomized Evaluation of Secondary Prevention by Outpatient Nurse SpEcialists (RESPONSE), demonstrated that nurse-coordinated outpatient clinics …