Rationale: The Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA) is a validated instrument to assess and monitor malnutrition, which consists of both patient-reported and professional-reported items. A professional should be able to correctly interpret all items. Untrained professionals may experience …

BACKGROUND: One-third of all medication errors causing harm to hospitalized patients occur in the medication preparation and administration phase, which is predominantly a nursing activity. To monitor, evaluate and improve the quality and safety of this process, evidence-based quality indicators can …

In het kader van het onderzoek Sturen op motivatie hebben Rianne van der Weijden en Leo Witte in 2013 een studiereis gemaakt naar Canada. Deze publicaties bevat het verslag van deze studiereis, een compilatie van wat de onderzoekers in Canada gezien en gehoord hebben en wat zij ter voorbereiding lazen …

BACKGROUND/AIM: This study examined the reliability and convergent validity of the Writing Readiness Inventory Tool in Context, a measurement evaluating writing readiness in kindergarten children (aged from five to six years). METHODS: Test-retest reliability was established with 59 children, inter-rater …

The Nociception Coma Scale (NCS) is a pain observation tool, developed for patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC) due to acquired brain injury (ABI). The aim of this study was to assess the interrater reliability of the NCS and NCS-R among nurses for the assessment of pain in ABI patients with …

Social media is becoming vitally important in today’s world. Big corporates and small companies both make use of it as part of their online marketing strategy (Ramachandran, 2014). It is a cheap, easy and it is a fast way to connect with customers, create dialogue and reach the mass. Consulting companies …

This marketing communications report was commissioned to examine how Primaflora can start internet marketing in order to establish valuable customer relationships and increase customer numbers for its German flower shops. The company’s main goal for creating an online presence is to increase brand awareness, …

Background: Determining what constitutes an excellent allied health care professional (AHCP) is important, since this is what will guide the development of curricula for training future physical therapists, oral hygienists, speech therapists, diagnostic radiographers, and dietitians. This also determines …

Een boek op basis van een studie naar de invloed van leercondities (support, challenge, assessment) en cruciale gebeurtenissen op de ontwikkeling van individueel talent. Zes HRM-ers, uit wetenschap en praktijk, die dominant zijn in het hedendaags HRM-debat, zijn op basis van een theoretisch model bevraagd …