eHealth applications hold many promises, for instance to improve the quality of health care, to increase its accessibility, or to reduce its cost. Yet, many eHealth innovations never reach the stage where they get embedded into routine health care. This is due in part to a lack of evidence that these …

EHealth applications hold many promises, for instance to improve the quality of health care, to increase its accessibility, or to reduce the cost. Yet, many eHealth innovations never reach the stage where they get embedded into routine health care. This is due in part to a lack of evidence that these …

In dit afstudeeronderzoek is gekeken naar hoe reizigers aan een zitplaats in de trein geholpen kunnen worden met behulp van een verandering in gedrag. Deze onderzoeksvraag is geformuleerd naar aanleiding van eerder onderzoek dat STBY deed voor NS en ProRail, waaruit bleek dat een belangrijke behoefte …

Ondanks dat de zorg in het ziekenhuis verandert, lijkt het erop dat de verpleegafdelingen een hogere prioriteit hebben dan de wachtruimtes of de behandelkamers. Hoewel het aantal onderzoeken op het gebied van de verpleegafdelingen volgens verschillende onderzoekers zoals Dijkstra e.a. (2006) en Beukeboom …

There is ample evidence that area-based approaches to tackling health inequalities, as part of a wider policy of community regeneration, are effective. Nevertheless, embedding this evidence in the routine practice of health professionals has not followed automatically. One of the barriers to the uptake …

De wijkagent wordt nogal eens gezien als het visitekaartje van de politie naar de burger. De wijkagent beweegt zich tussen de burgers, tussen een groot aantal partners in de wijk en heeft intern te maken met verschillende afdelingen als de recherche en de surveillancedienst. Met al deze partijen wil …

The Kennedy Axis V is a routine outcome measurement instrument which can assist the assessment of the short-term risk for violence and other adverse patient outcomes. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the interrater reliability and clinical utility of the instrument when used by mental health …

In this report the properties of the E-field sheet have been measured. Also the connection between the E-field sheet and the pc has been developed. For visualisation of the data a GUI has been made in Matlab which also reads out the data from the DAQ card. Before a measurement on the clinical equipment …

Nuclear fusion is seen as one of the future technologies for roducing electrical power. In a hot and con ned plasma deuterium and tritium will melt together and form a helium nucleus and a neutron. This process produces a total of 17.6 MeV energy. In the plasma instabilities occur. Suppression of these …

Background Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is used to treat various wound types. However, the possible beneficial and harmful effects of HBOT for acute wounds are unclear. Methods We undertook a systematic review to evaluate the effectiveness of HBOT compared to other interventions on wound healing …