Objective This systematic review aims to reevaluate the role of minerals on muscle mass, muscle strength, physical performance, and the prevalence of sarcopenia in community-dwelling and institutionalized older adults. Design Systematic review. Setting and Participants In March 2022, a systematic search …

AIM: Identification and synthesis of research data related to the roles and competencies of physicians and nurses that are prerequisites for careful shared decision-making with patients potentially undergoing cardiac surgery. DESIGN: A scoping review was conducted in accordance with the Joanna Briggs …

The free market underpins our economy and our way of thinking around enterprise and value, but it is also a major factor in the sustainability problems that we now live with. Climate change, child labour and oil spills are just a few of the many problems associated with our economic activity and, although …

There has been a rapidly growing number of studies of the geographical aspects of happiness and well-being. Many of these studies have been highlighting the role of space and place and of individual and spatial contextual determinants of happiness. However, most of the studies to date do not explicitly …

Doel: Het doel is om op systematische wijze bestaande informatie te verkrijgen en te kunnen verstrekken over de zin van EMDR bij tandartsangst en het klinische bewijs hiervoor. De korte en lange termijn effecten van EMDR op tandartsangst worden onderzocht. Aan de hand van de vernieuwde informatie kan …

Achtergrond Naar aanleiding van het onderzoek van het Lectoraat IZF (HU) bij hypothyreoïdie patiënten is de enquêtevraag: ‘Hoe voelt hypothyreoïdie voor u?’ uitgewerkt door middel van een kwalitatieve analyse. De oorspronkelijke data betrof 1043 respondenten en 131 pagina’s. Doelstelling Binnen 20 weken …

In het Adaptieve Expertise World café geven we deelnemers inzicht in de manieren waarop studenten in het hoger onderwijs middels werkplekleren adaptieve expertise ontwikkelen. Adaptieve expertise (AE) is het vermogen van professionals om om te kunnen gaan met veranderingen en vernieuwingen. Het is een …

The aim of this analysis was to compare ventilation management and outcomes in invasively ventilated patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) between the first and second wave in the Netherlands. This is a post hoc analysis of two nationwide observational …

Sepsis is a life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated immune response to infection. It is the number one cause of death in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), accounting for 6 million casualties every year. Unfortunately, all clinical trials in the last decade failed due to the highly complex …

Aims: This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluates the additional effect of exercise to hypocaloric diet on body weight, body composition, glycaemic control and cardio-respiratory fitness in adults with overweight or obesity and type 2 diabetes.  Methods: Embase, Medline, Web of Science and Cochrane …