Publicaties

There is a great need for research aimed at understanding drought tolerance, screening for drought tolerant varieties and breeding crops with an improved water use efficiency. Bananas and plantains are a major staple food and export product with a...

OBJECTIVE: To systematically assess efficacy and safety of buprenorphine patch versus fentanyl patch in patients with chronic moderate to severe pain. METHODS: Fifteen databases were searched up to December 2010. Randomised and quasi-randomised tr...

Abstract Context: In modern medicine there is an ongoing shift from acute to more chronic pathology. Because of this development there is a growing need for different care-givers who can take care of the different aspects in chronic care. The i...

Two decades ago, Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) was introduced to improve the quality of medical care. Using EBM in practice can be seen as a cyclic process consisting of 5 steps. This paper explains how to apply these steps in anesthesiology. The ...

Poster abstract

Dit artikel is het eerste van twee artikels over het Leuvens Consultatiemodel. Het eerste artikel beschrijft vooral het model zelf. Het tweede artikel geeft meer achtergrondinformatie en toetst het model aan de internationale literatuur over commu...

Most studies on comorbidity in low back pain (LBP) have been conducted in specialized settings with the use of self-reports. This study has an original design using data from family practices: the incidence of the most frequent diseases was compar...

There is a considerable discrepancy between the number of identified occupational-related bladder cancer cases and the estimated numbers particularly in emerging nations or less developed countries where suitable approaches are less or even not kn...

Introduction. Estimates on the epidemiology of chronic pain vary widely throughout Europe. It is unclear whether this variation reflects true differences between populations or methodological factors. Information on the epidemiology of chronic pai...

BACKGROUND: Hypoglycemia is a frequent phenomenon in people being treated for diabetes mellitus, which can acutely disrupt driving performance. For the benefit of personal and public traffic safety, we decided to identify successful diabetes-relat...

There are many secondary benefits to collecting routine primary care data, but we first need to understand some of the properties of this data. In this paper we describe the method used to assess the PPV and sensitivity of data extracted from Belg...

Efficiency and privacy protection are essential when setting up nationwide research networks. This paper investigates the extent to which basic services developed to support the provision of care can be re-used, whilst preserving an acceptable pri...

© 2012, Joanna Briggs Institute. All rights reserved. Review questions/objective: The overall aim of this systematic review will be to find and synthesise the best available evidence regarding the prevalence of symptoms in elderly persons with inc...

Introduction: Frailty is a commonly used term indicating older persons at increased risk for adverse outcomes such as onset of disability, morbidity, institutionalization or mortality. A screening tool could be used to identify those patients who ...

Introduction: In older cancer patients, additional endpoints such as quality of life and daily functioning might be considered equally relevant as overall or disease free survival. However, these factors have been understudied. Research question: ...

OBJECTIVE: The fetal response to an adverse intrauterine environment - reflected in low birth weight - is thought to cause an increased risk for adult hypertension. A possible mechanism by which fetal adaptive responses contribute to hypertension ...

Nadat in een eerste artikel het Leuvens Consultatiemodel werd beschreven, wordt in dit tweede artikel het model getoetst aan de inzichten van de actuele medische communicatieliteratuur. In dit artikel willen we de huidige versie van het Leuvens Co...

Doel: Met de Klimop-studie willen we de impact van een diagnose van kanker, veroudering en de interactie tussen beide op het lange termijn welzijn van oudere kankerpatiënten in kaart brengen. Methodologie: De Klimop-studie is een lopende observa...

Abstract Background: The Objective Structured Clinical Examination was designed 30 years ago by Harden. It has been thought of as a reliable and objective tool to evaluate clinical competences in structured patient encounters. Although generally ...

Pancreatic cancer mortality rates have been increasing in high-income countries between the 1950s and the 1980s, and have leveled off or declined thereafter, particularly in men. To provide a global overview of recent pancreatic cancer mortality, ...