Alcohol en studenten zijn voor veel mensen twee begrippen die meestal hand in hand gaan. Verschillende onderzoeken geven aan dat heel wat studenten meer dan 5 à 6 glazen alcohol gebruikt bij één enkele gelegenheid. Eén van de belangrijkste gevolge...
BACKGROUND: The diagnostic value and the impact of some signs and symptoms in most diseases in primary care have only been studied incompletely. AIM: To assess the diagnostic value of macroscopic haematuria for the idagnosis of urological cancer (...
Auteurs:Rudi Bruyninckx, Frank Buntinx, Bert Aertgeerts, and Viviane Van Casteren
Aim: There is a growing evidence that depression is associated with an increased mortality risk, but results from studies are ambiguous. To investigate whether depression leads to increased mortality, we reviewed the literature on depression and t...
Auteurs:M van den Akker, AG Schuurman, KTJL Ensinck, and Frank Buntinx
Smoking cessation is the most effective way to reduce the risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or to reduce its progression. However, little is known about the efficacy and safety of different pharmacological smoking ces...
Auteurs:Edwin J Wagena, Maurice Zeegers, Constant P van Schayck, and Emiel FM Wouters
Asthma is the most frequent chronical condition in children. Recently, the Scientific Society of General Practitioners in Flanders developed a guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of asthma in children. The present study was conducted to eval...
Auteurs:A Van Den Bruel, P Van Royen, HP Van Bever, and L De Schampheleire
BACKGROUND: Respiratory failure due to lung immaturity is a major cause of mortality in preterm infants. Although intermittent positive pressure ventilation (IPPV) saves lives, lung distortion during its use is associated with lung injury and chro...
Auteurs:DJ Henderson-Smart, T Bhuta, Filip Cools, and M Offringa
In the Netherlands, clinical practice physiotherapy guidelines are mainly implemented by using passive implementation strategies. It is well known that these strategies are not effective in establishing changes in behaviour of health care professi...
Auteurs:GE Bekkering, AJ Engers, M Wensing, HJM Hendriks, MW van Tulder, RAB Oostendorp, and LM Bouter
De best mogelijke zorg komt tot stand door onderzoeksresultaten te combineren met de klinische expertise van de zorgverlener en de voorkeur van de patiënt. deze ruimere definitie van evidence based medicine biedt de verpleegkunde ruimte voor het o...
Auteurs:Karin Hannes, Walter Sermeus, Bert Aertgeerts, and Frank Buntinx
Although a lot of research has been performed on the relation between depression and subsequent mortality, the results show contradictory findings. In this study, the authors investigated mortality in depressed people compared with nondepressed pe...
Auteurs:Kim TJL Ensinck, Agnes G Schuurman, Marjan van den Akker, Job FM Metsemakers, Arnold DM Kester, J André Knottnerus, and Frank Buntinx
According to the 1996-1998 cancer incidence report of the cancer registry of the Belgian province of Limburg (LIKAR), prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men with a crude invasive cancer incidence rate of 123.7 per 100000 person-years (12...
Auteurs:Daniël Lousbergh, Frank Buntinx, H Geys, M Du Bois, D Dhollander, and G Molenberghs
The association between several cancers and selenium status has been investigated in epidemiological studies. However, few results concerning bladder cancer have been reported thus far. The association between toenail selenium status and subsequen...
Auteurs:MPA Zeegers, RA Goldbohm, P Bode, and PA van den Brandt
Objective: To evaluate antibody titers against measles, mumps and rubella in children aged 6-17 years. Background: Current Flemish recommendations for immunization include a trivalent measles-mumps-rubella (MMR)-vaccine at 15 months (since 1985) a...
Auteurs:Corinne Vandermeulen, Birgitte Schoenmakers, Mathieu Roelants, Marc Van Ranst, Pierre Van Damme, and Karel Hoppenbrouwers
The object of this article was to validate the predictive value of Charlson's comorbidity index for the prediction of short-term mortality or morbidity in elderly people. The design was a cohort study comparing survival and hospitalization in inst...
Auteurs:Frank Buntinx, L Niclaes, C Suetens, B Jans, R Mertens, and M Van den Akker
A large-scale study (N = 3,518) was designed to assess the academic performance of college freshmen in relationship to alcohol abuse or dependence. Alcohol abuse or dependence was identified in 501 (14%) students; of these, 128 (3.6%) were alcohol...
INTRODUCTION: The aim was to explore the context and experiences of collaboration between the general practitioner (GP) and the district nurse (DN) on diagnosing dementia, in order to identify possible procedures to improve care. MATERIAL AND METH...
Auteurs:Frans Boch Waldorff, Lars Bo Bülow, Kirsti Malterud, and Gunhild Waldemar
