Background: Accounting for the patients’ perspective on quality of care has become increasingly important in the development of Evidence Based Medicine as well as in governmental policies. In the Netherlands the Consumer Quality (CQ) Index has been developed to measure the quality of care from the patients’ …

Wijkverpleegkundigen in Nederland indiceren sinds 2015 weer zelf. Indiceren houdt in dat zij vaststellen welke zorg nodig is. Alle verpleegkundigen worden geacht om via een brede anamnese te komen tot geobjectiveerde, onderbouwde (verpleegkundige) diagnoses die gekoppeld kunnen worden aan verpleegkundige …

Background. There is an increasing need for a worldwide professional integration of conventional medicine and traditional/complementary whole medical systems (WMSs). However, the integration is perceived by conventional medicine as problematic or unacceptable, because of a supposed lack of evidence for …

Achtergrond Evidence Based Practice wordt in de beroepspraktijk nog te weinig ingezet door verpleegkundigen, ondanks dat het bijdraagt aan de kwaliteit van zorg. Aangezien hbo-verpleegkundigen een belangrijke rol spelen in het inzetten van Evidence Based Practice en het meenemen van mbo-opgeleide zorgprofessionals …

In dit kwalitatieve onderzoek staat de volgende vraag centraal: Hoe wordt Affectregulerende Muziektherapie ingezet bij kinderen van 6 tot 18 jaar met een autismespectrumstoornis? De Affectregulerende Vaktherapie (ArVT) is beschreven door het Kennisnetwerk Affectregulerende Vaktherapie en wordt ingezet …

To increase the knowledge on effective methods for implementing and sustaining evidence-based practice in health care

Cervical dystonia is the most frequent form of focal dystonia. Symptoms often result in pain and functional disability. Local injections of botulinum neurotoxin are currently the treatment of choice for cervical dystonia. Although this treatment has proven effective and is widely applied worldwide, many …

Background: To improve the effectiveness of community-based care programs, especially those targeting the oldest-old population (80+), data are needed that elucidate those factors associated with a successful response to the intervention. Two comparable nurse-led care programs have been evaluated …

This study explores how academics who expanded their teaching-only positions to include research view their (re)constructed academic identity. Participants worked in a higher professional education institution of applied research and teaching, comparable with so-called new universities. The aim is to …

Abstract Introduction: Both in literature and in practice there is debate about defining Integrated Care. The WHO for example, defines Integrated Care as a process, not covering the perspective of (cost-) effectiveness. From the perspective of research into evidence in Integrated Care this is rather …