Publicaties

BACKGROUND/AIM: The aim of the study was to investigate the pattern of association of generic and disease-specific quality of life (QoL) scales with standard clinical outcome variables in Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHODS: The participants were 32...

OBJECTIVES: Although high volumes of literature have been written on interventions in dementia home care, only a poor efficiency has been proved. Nevertheless, caregivers often express strong feelings of satisfaction about the proposed support. In...

AIMS: The efficacy of treatments for osteoporosis can be evaluated using a variety of study designs. This article aims to comprehensively review the evidence for bisphosphonate anti-fracture efficacy in postmenopausal women, discussing the strengt...

Yearly about 35 cases of invasive cervical cancer are diagnosed in Limburg (Belgium) of which 90% could have been prevented by adequate screening and follow-up. In 2007 a representative sample of general practitioners in Limburg was questioned by ...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The aim of the present study was to evaluate whether three reminder letters mailed to GPs after dissemination of a Dementia Guideline increased the GPs' use of the corresponding e-learning programme (ELP). METHODS: Single-blin...

This paper presents the results of preliminary walking experiments on a transtibial amputee wearing a powered prosthesis. The prosthesis prototype serves as a proof-of-concept implementation for investigating the potential of pleated pneumatic art...

BACKGROUND: Loneliness is a universal phenomenon that influences one's health and health perception. GPs are confronted with lonely people quite often. Yet, what GPs think of this phenomenon and how they deal with emotions lonely patients evoke is...

OBJECTIVES: To assess the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Hill-Bone compliance to high blood pressure therapy scale for use in primary care in Turkey. METHODS: To develop a Turkish version of the scale, it was translated int...

Background: Electronic guideline-based decision support systems have been suggested to successfully deliver the knowledge embedded in clinical practice guidelines. A number of studies have already shown positive findings for decision support syste...

BACKGROUND: Alzheimer's disease is the leading cause of dementia and affects about 25 million people worldwide. Recent studies have evaluated the effect of early interventions for dementia, but few studies have considered private time and transpor...

Spindle bipolarity relies on a fine balance of forces exerted by various molecular motors [1-4]. In most animal cells, spindle bipolarity requires sustained outward forces to push the spindle poles apart, an activity that is provided by Eg5, a con...

Breast cancer is the most common female cancer in Europe, but its incidence and mortality are rapidly changing across Europe. The early termination of the women's health initiative (WHI) trial, after the detection of an increased breast cancer ris...

Aim To evaluate the effect of an educational intervention on interobserver agreement of assessments of functional status performed by registered nurses and care assistants in a nursing home and to compare interobserver agreement in persons with a...

BACKGROUND: measurement of plasma natriuretic peptide levels has been proposed as a simple, accessible test to assist the diagnosis of cardiac dysfunction and heart failure. Most studies have been hospital based and have investigated the relations...

BACKGROUND: Quality is on the agenda of European general practice (GP). European researchers have, in collaboration, developed tools to assess quality of GPs. In this feasibility study, we tested the European Practice Assessment (EPA) in a one-off...

Musculoskeletal loading is an important factor affecting the development of osteoarthritis, bone remodelling and primary fixation of total hip replacement (THR). In this study, we analyzed the relation between muscular force, gait kinematics and k...

Over the past few years concerns have been rising about the use of Evidence-Based Practice (EBP). We explored obstacles among Belgian physiotherapists to the implementation of EBP in clinical work. We used a qualitative research strategy based on ...

The aim of the present study was to determine whether a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus (DM) in a primary setting is associated with an increased risk of subsequent depression. A retrospective cohort design was used based on the Registration Networ...

BACKGROUND: Subjective memory complaints (SMC) are common among elderly patients and little is know about the association between SMC and health care utilisation. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate health care utilisation during a thre...

BACKGROUND: Smoking cessation advice by GPs is an effective and cost-effective intervention, but is not implemented as widely as it could be. AIM: This wide-ranging Europe-wide literature review, part of the European Union (EU) PESCE (General Prac...

Les signes et symptômes comportementaux et psychologiques - SCPD constituent une composante clinique majeure du tableau clinique des démences. Ils peuvent induire une souffrance importante chez les sujets déments et leur entourage. Le but de l’étu...

The Social Reactivity Scale is a questionnaire measure of individual differences in rebelliousness. The associations between rebelliousness, health behaviours and health outcomes were examined in two Dutch samples by means of cross-sectional surve...

Background: Evidence-based medicine has broadened its scope and is starting to reach insurance medicine. Although still in its initial stages, physicians in the area of insurance medicine should keep up-to-date with the evidence on various disease...

OBJECTIVE: The maternally imprinted insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF2) gene is an important fetal growth factor and is also suggested to have postnatal metabolic effects. In this study, we examined whether common polymorphisms in IGF2 (6815_6819d...