OBJECTIVES: This study aims to explore the identification of older people in need of dental consultation, with a Simplified Oral Indicator (SOI) used by home care nurses (HCNs) and with the Geriatric Oral Health Assessment Index (GOHAI-NL) completed by older people themselves, compared with the Oral …

Background: Medical consultations with older patients often include triadic conversations and decision-making processes involving physicians, patients, and family members. The presence of family members may change the communication dynamics and therefore increase the complexity of the consultation and …

Purpose: To describe perceptions and experiences of people who have undergone a major dysvascular lower limb amputation (LLA) regarding nutrition, and to identify perceived barriers and facilitators regarding nutritional intake. Methods: In this phenomenological qualitative study, individual, semi-structured, …

Background: Compassion-based interventions (CBIs) such as Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living (MBCL) are effective for treating depression, with improvements in self-compassion partly mediating the effects. The aim of this study is to investigate whether experiential avoidance, fear of self-compassion, …

INTRODUCTION: In this study we aimed to identify behaviours representative of agentic engagement in pre-clinical medical education problem-based learning (PBL) groups. Agentic engagement is defined as the proactive, intentional contributions students make to their flow of instruction. This concept, developed …

Summary Introduction Daily oral care for older people is important, to obtain and maintain good functional oral health. Nursing staff is involved in the daily oral care and/ or the monitoring of oral health and hygiene, depending on the level of care support that older people need. Yet, the oral health …

BACKGROUND: Physical activity is essential in burn care to counteract the effects of severe burns and inactivity during hospitalization. However, detailed knowledge of performed physical activities is lacking. This study evaluated the feasibility of a dual accelerometer-based method to assess type, frequency, …

Background: The quality of care given by EMS staff is in part monitored by routine review of deployment reports that the providers must complete after each deployment. The assessment consists of determining whether a deployment was performed in a medically correct manner and thus whether the clinical …

1. The authors regret that some of the references in the final version of the manuscript were still indicated as ‘deleted for blinded review’. These have been corrected below: a) On page 2: For example, in a recent Delphi study, older people in the Netherlands indicated that they did not use or like …