Background: Outcome assessment is essential to understand the impact and recovery of burns of the hand and tailor treatment. There is however, a large variety of measures and outcome assessment is often incomplete. The aim was therefore to initiate a set of outcome assessments for use in a clinical setting. …

In light of current worldwide developments, the conference theme “Value Diversity” explicitly refers to the changes we need to see. This contribution is about Life expectancy of people with a severe or profound intellectual disability. Their life expectancy increases, which contributes to the risk of …

Background: Family quality of life (FQoL) of families that have a child with severe to profound intellectual disabilities (SPID) is an important and emerging concept, however, related variables are inconclusive. Aim: To gain a better understanding of variables related to the FQoL of families that have …

Het betreft een op wetenschappelijke basis gefundeerde opinie op de samenwerking tussen huisarts en verpleegkundig specialist buiten kantooruren.

Factors influencing family involvement in treatment decision making for older patients with cancer

Point of Care Testing is een innovative stroming binnen de geneeskunde. Aan de hand van een voorbeeld, waarbij het doel is flebitis in een vroeg stadium te kunnen onderkennen, wordt in dit artikel het belang van deze methode toegelicht.

Objectives: In Europe, there is a distinction between two different healthcare organisation systems, the tax-based healthcare system (THS) and the social health insurance system (SHI). Our aim was to investigate whether the characteristics, treatment and mortality of older, critically ill patients in …

De bevolking van Nederland vergrijst. Dit gaat gepaard met een forse toename van het aantal mensen met (verschillende) chronische aandoeningen, bijvoorbeeld dementie. Tegelijkertijd is er een almaar groter personeelstekort, waardoor we steeds meer een beroep doen op hulp en ondersteuning van familie …

Background and aims: Patients with cancer frequently present with disease-related malnutrition and functional decline. The scored Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA©) is a malnutrition screening and assessment tool commonly used in patients with cancer. The aim of the current study …

Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the implementation of a physical activity counseling program in rehabilitation and to study heterogeneity in received counseling and investigate its association with changes in patients' physical activity outcomes. Methods: This prospective cohort study was conducted …