Auteurs:Dimitri Beeckman, Cathy Matheï, Aurelie Van Lancker, Sabine Van Houdt, Geert Van Walleghem, Luc Gryson, Hilde Heymans, Christian Thyse, Adinda Toppets, Sabine Storideur et Koen Van den Heede
Context: Urineweginfecties vormen de meest voorkomende infecties in woonzorgcentra (WZC). Gedurende hun verblijf in een WZC maakt 50% van de vrouwelijke en 40% van de mannelijke residenten een UWI door. Deze cijfers tonen aan dat UWI een veelvoor...
Auteurs:Eva Verhoeyen, Frank Buntinx, Katrien Latour et Jan De Lepeleire
Auteurs:Dimitri Beeckman, Cathy Matheï, Aurélie Van Lancker, Geert Vanwalleghem, Sabine Van Houdt, Luc Gryson, Hilde Heymans, Christian Thyse, Adinda Toppets, Sabine Stordeur et Koen Van den Heede
Auteurs:Trudy Bekkering, Mieke Autrique, David Möbius, Karen Smets, Martine Goossens, Bert Aertgeerts, Paul Van Royen, Marijs Geirnaert et Karin Hannes
Auteurs:Trudy Bekkering, Karen Smets, Martine Goossens, Mieke Autrique, David Möbius, Marijs Geirnaert, Bert Aertgeerts, Paul Van Royen et Karin Hannes
Abstract Introduction Since many years, teaching and training of communication skills are cornerstones in medical education. Many studies are dedicated to the outcome of vocational training on competence of students in contact with patients. Altho...
Auteurs:Thomas Eeckhout, Michiel Gerits, Dries Bouquillon et Birgitte Schoenmakers
Background Appropriate prescribing for older people is a challenge. General practitioners (GPs) are aware of their key position in relation to prescribing practice in the elderly. However, they often feel powerless and report a need for simple GP ...
Auteurs:Evelien Lenaerts, Floris De Knijf et Birgitte Schoenmakers
Auteurs:Sonja Melman, Ellen Schoorel, Francis Vrouenraets, Anneke Kwee, Maureen Franssen, Ellen Smid-Koopman, Mallory Woiski, Ben Willem Mol, Hans Doornbos, Harry Visser, Anjoke Huisjes, Martina Porath, Friso Delemarre, Simone Kuppens, Robert Aardenburg, Ivo van Dooren, Gunilla Kleiverda, Paulien van der Salm, Karin de Boer, Marko Sikkema, Carmen Dirksen, Sander van Kuijk, Jan Nijhuis, Liesbeth Scheepers et Rosella Hermens
BACKGROUND: Frequent attenders are patients who visit their general practitioner exceptionally frequently. Frequent attendance is usually transitory, but some frequent attenders become persistent. Clinically, prediction of persistent frequent atte...
Auteurs:Frans T Smits, Henk J Brouwer, Aeilko H Zwinderman, Marjan van den Akker, Ben van Steenkiste, Jacob Mohrs, Aart H Schene, Henk C van Weert et Gerben ter Riet
BACKGROUND: Taking into account our rapidly ageing population, older people are of particular interest in studying health inequalities. Most studies of older persons only include measures of current socioeconomic status (SES) and do not take into ...
Auteurs:Danielle AI Groffen, Annemarie Koster, Hans Bosma, Marjan van den Akker, Thor Aspelund, Kristin Siggeirsdottir, Gertrudis IJM Kempen, Jacques Th M van Eijk, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Palmi V Jonsson, Lenore J Launer, Vilmundur Gudnason et Tamara B Harris
We assessed the interaction between the APOE ε4 allele and education level in the etiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD) among memory clinic patients from the multicenter DESCRIPA study. Subjects (n = 544) were followed for 1 to 5 years. We used Cox...
Auteurs:Angelique PA Vermeiren, Hans Bosma, Pieter-Jelle Visser, Maurice P Zeegers, Caroline Graff, Michael Ewers, Giovanni B Frisoni, Lutz Froelich, Harald Hampel, Roy W Jones, Patrick G Kehoe, Hermine Lenoir, Lennart Minthon, Flavio M Nobili, Marcel Olde Rikkert, Anne-Sophie Rigaud, Philip Scheltens, Hilkka Soininen, Luiza Spiru, Magda Tsolaki, Lars-Olof Wahlund, Bruno Vellas, Gordon Wilcock, Lyzel S Elias-Sonnenschein et Frans RJ Verhey
The numerous existing primary care-based research networks currently use various data collection methods. In this paper, we compared routine data extracted from general practitioners' (GPs') electronic patient records (EPRs) and GPs' answers to an...
Auteurs:Etienne De Clercq, Sarah Moreels, Nathalie Bossuyt, Katrien Vanthomme, Geert Goderis et Viviane Van Casteren
OBJECTIVE: Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are one of the main causes of maternal morbidity and mortality. Internationally, several organizations have developed clinical guidelines to assist professionals and to supply patients with the best p...
Auteurs:Susanne H Luitjes, Maurice G Wouters, Arie Franx, Antoinette C Bolte, Christianne J de Groot, Maurits W van Tulder et Rosella P Hermens
OBJECTIVES: To examine the long-term efficacy at the 36-month follow-up of an early psychosocial counselling and support programme lasting 8-12 months for community-dwelling patients with mild Alzheimer's disease and their caregivers. DESIGN: Mult...
Auteurs:Kieu TT Phung, FB Waldorff, DV Buss, A Eckermann, N Keiding, S Rishoj, V Siersma, J Sorensen, R Sogaard, LV Sorensen, A Vogel et G Waldemar
BACKGROUND: Most but not all evidence supports hostility-related attributes to increase mortality risk. However, studies usually include single attributes, their effects have been studied predominantly in younger populations, and behavioural pathw...
Auteurs:Gonnie Klabbers, H Bosma, Marjan van den Akker, GIJM Kempen et J Th M van Eijk
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Asthma is a heterogeneous disease with various clinical, inflammatory and molecular phenotypes. We studied sputum cytokine mRNA expression patterns in an unselected group of adult asthma patients to characterize the under...
Auteurs:Sven Seys, Wim Adriaensen, Ellen Dilissen, Marcin Grabowski, Ann Decraene, Jeroen Vanoirbeek, Jan Ceuppens, Lieven Dupont et Dominique Bullens
Background: A best practice guideline on the prevention of substance misuse in adolescents was developed in Belgium, using the ADAPTE methodology. A comprehensive search revealed three high-quality relevant guidelines. However, several clinical qu...
Auteurs:Elke Emmers, Trudy Bekkering et Karin Hannes
BACKGROUND: Ghrelin is the only known peripherally active orexigenic hormone produced by the stomach that activates vagal afferents to stimulate food intake and to accelerate gastric emptying. Vagal sensory neurons within the nodose ganglia are su...
Auteurs:Bert Avau, B De Smet, Theo Thijs, Anneleen Geuzens, Jan Tack, Pieter Vanden Berghe et Inge Depoortere
Objectives: Hypovitaminosis D and chronic kidney disease (CKD) are highly prevalent in older adults. The factors correlating with 25-OH-vitamin D and PTH levels were analyzed in older adults with and without CKD. Design: We performed a cross-secti...
Auteurs:Gijs Van Pottelbergh, Cathy Matheï, Bert Vaes, Wim Adriaensen, D Gruson et Jean-Marie Degryse
BACKGROUND: Ghrelin, an orexigenic hormone secreted from the stomach, was soon after its discovery hypothesized to be a prokinetic agent, due to its homology to motilin. Studies in animals and humans, using ghrelin and ghrelin receptor agonists, c...
Auteurs:Bert Avau, Florencia Carbone, Jan Tack et Inge Depoortere
Auteurs:Evelyna Derhovanesian, Wim Adriaensen, Karin Shweinzer, Klaus Hamprecht, Cathy Matheï, Bert Vaes, Gijs Van Pottelbergh, Jean-Marie Degryse et Graham Pawelec
Electronic Patient Records can be interfaced with medical decision support systems and quality of care assessment tools. An easy way of measuring the quality of EPR data is therefore essential. This study identified a number of global quality indi...
Auteurs:Etienne De Clercq, Sarah Moreels, Viviane Van Casteren, Nathalie Bossuyt et Geert Goderis
at is de balans tussen voor- en nadelen van metformine versus andere behandelingen (zoals dieet en andere orale antidiabetica) op het vlak van cardiovasculaire morbiditeit en mortaliteit bij type 2-diabetespatiënten? Deze meta-analyse van goede me...
BACKGROUND: vitamin D deficiency is a well-known cause of bone loss and fractures but its association, especially among the oldest old, with muscle weakness is less obvious. OBJECTIVE: to investigate the relationship between 25-hydroxyvitamin D (2...
Auteurs:Cathy Matheï, Gijs Van Pottelbergh, Bert Vaes, Wim Adriaensen, Didier Gruson et Jean-Marie Degryse
