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This manuscript describes the final year of medical education at Maastricht University as it has been operating since 2006. At the time external drivers for the development of a new structure of the final year were: the desire to prepare medical s...

BACKGROUND: Patients' expectations of treatment effects may contribute to positive (placebo) and negative (nocebo) outcomes. The effect of patient expectations may be pronounced in subjectively assessed conditions, such as male erectile dysfunctio...

Discussing a patient in an oncology multidisciplinary team meeting (MTM) increases the value of the quality of the treatment chosen. MTMs are increasingly mentioned in guidelines and indicator sets. Based on literature review and observations, the...

BACKGROUND: Over the last few years, the Screening Tool of Older Person's Prescriptions (STOPP) and Screening Tool to Alert doctors to Right Treatment (START) criteria have been increasingly used to evaluate the prevalence of inappropriate prescri...

BACKGROUND: The number of cancer patients and the number of patients surviving initial treatments is expected to rise. Traditionally, follow-up monitoring takes place in secondary care. The contribution of general practice is less visible and not ...

OBJECTIVE: Identifying and describing successful diabetes-related (SDR) behaviors from reports by experiential experts to support people with diabetes in applying for and participating effectively in paid work. METHODS: Data were collected by cond...

OBJECTIVE: To validate successful diabetes-related behaviors, proposed by a group of experiential experts, and to support people with diabetes in applying for and participating effectively in work. METHODS: In a survey among 77 experiential expert...

Background: People in lower socioeconomic positions report worse health-related functioning. Only few examined whether perceptions of unfairness are particularly common in these people and whether this perceived unfairness relates to their subsequ...

BACKGROUND: The study investigated the change in proxy rated quality of life (QoL) of a large cohort of home living patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) over a period of 36 months. METHODS: The sample consisted of 102 patients with mild AD and t...

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BACKGROUND: The prevalence of CKD rises with age. The prevalence of CKD-related metabolic complications in the oldest old in relation to different GFR estimations is largely unknown. eGFR-based thresholds for the detection of these complications r...

A number of barriers to the implementation of evidence-based practice have already been inventoried. However, little attention has been given to the context-specific nature of these barriers. This qualitative evidence synthesis examines commonalit...

© 2017 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (Intervention). The objectives are as follows: To examine the efficacy and safety of noradrenergic/dopaminergic reuptake inhibitors ...

BACKGROUND: Accelerated infant growth is a possible explanation for the relation between birth weight and adult diseases. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to estimate the heritability of infant growth and to examine whether the genetic contr...

RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: The presence of multiple concomitant diseases is an increasing health problem, and prompted by the limitations of the disease count, several indices measuring multi-morbidity or co-morbidity have been described to a...

Achtergrond Het nakende tekort aan huisartsen doet huisartsen in opleiding nadenken over het evenwicht tussen vraag en aanbod binnen de eerste lijn. De toegenomen complexiteit van de gezondheidszorg jaagt bovendien de kosten de hoogte in. Binnen d...

OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether an observed association between cytomegalovirus (CMV) exposure and functional impairment and frailty in older adults is reproducible in a cohort of individuals aged 80 and older. DESIGN: The baseline results of t...

Er is nog steeds onvoldoende evidentie over het klinisch belang van doelgerichte gestructureerde groepseducatie voor de behandeling van type 2-diabetes. Ook het effect van peer support blijft onduidelijk. http://minerva-ebm.be/NL/Analysis/10365

BACKGROUND: General practice based registration networks (GPRNs) provide information on morbidity rates in the population. Morbidity rate estimates from different GPRNs, however, reveal considerable, unexplained differences. We studied the range a...