BACKGROUND: Mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets have surged in popularity in recent years, generating numerous possibilities for their use in health care as mobile health (mHealth) tools. One advantage of mHealth is that it can be provided asynchronously, signifying that health care providers …

BACKGROUND: Admission to a hospital is often related with hospital-associated disabilities. Improving physical activity during hospitalization is considered effective to counteract hospital-associated disabilities, whereas many studies report on very low physical activity levels. Gradually developing …

Het eerste doel is het evalueren en verbeteren van machine learning algoritmes voor insulineadviezen voor jongeren met diabetes type 1. Het tweede doel is het ontwikkelen van een kennisbank met geanonimiseerde datasets ten behoeve van de opleiding HBO-ICT. Studenten kunnen hiermee praktijkervaring opdoen …

We aim to gain a better understanding of context-specific barriers to and facilitators of implementation of integrated care by doing a retrospective assessment of seven years of Embrace. This Dutch integrated person-centred health service for older adults was based on two evidence-based models (the Chronic …

Ondanks de internationale voortrekkersrol van Nederlandop het gebied van seksualiteit, geeft slechts een minderheid van de Nederlandse scholen op gestructureerde manier les in relationele en seksuele vorming (“Speech Directeur Ton Coenen,” 2017). Sinds 2012 is binnen het onderwijs aandacht voor relationele …

People with dementia (PwD) risk a deterioration in quality of life (QoL) as the dementia progresses. A growing number of studies show that music can increase QoL. Unfortunately, loss of initiative and problems during product-use hinder access to music. In this paper we first depict a gap in knowledge …

Cultureel vermogen in de praktijk is een kwalitatief onderzoek naar het culturele leven van mbo-studenten van een opleiding Zorg in Amsterdam. Wat vertellen de studenten over de invulling van hun culturele levens, wat is voor hen belangrijk en waar liggen hun interesses? De verhalen van deze studenten …

OBJECTIVE: The objectives of the present study were to: (1) evaluate the effect of an educational course on competence (knowledge and clinical reasoning) of primary care physical therapists (PTs) in treating patients with knee osteoarthritis (KOA) and comorbidity according to the developed strategy; …

Background: Improvement of functional status with physiotherapy is an important goal for patients with postoperative complications and an increased length of hospital stay (LoS) after esophagectomy. Supervised physiotherapy with telerehabilitation instead of conventional face-to-face care could be an …

BACKGROUND: Early mobilization has been proven effective for patients in intensive care units (ICUs) to improve functional recovery. However, early mobilization of critically ill, often mechanically ventilated, patients is cumbersome because of the attachment to tubes, drains, monitoring devices and …