Publicaties

BACKGROUND: There is a lack of appropriately designed trials investigating the efficacy of psychosocial interventions for patients with mild dementia and their family caregivers. This paper reports the rationale and design of the Danish Alzheimer ...

BACKGROUND: Selenium is a trace element essential to humans. Higher selenium exposure and selenium supplements have been suggested to protect against several types of cancers. OBJECTIVES: Two research questions were addressed in this review: What ...

Dit zakboekje wil een wegwijzer zijn in de dagelijkse professionele voor patiënten met dementie en hun familie en mantelzorgers. Vertrekkende vanuit de initiële ziektediagnostiek tot de fase van het levenseinde geeft dit boekje een helder, wetensc...

BACKGROUND: Adverse events are unintended patient injuries or complications that arise from healthcare management resulting in death, disability or prolonged hospital stay. Adverse events that require critical care are a considerable financial bur...

SAMENVATTING ‘De ervaringen van thuisverpleegkundigen bij het toepassen van vrijheidsbeperkende maatregelen: een kwalitatieve studie’ Probleemstelling Op basis van de huidige evoluties wordt verwacht dat thuisverpleegkundigen in toenemende mate...

BACKGROUND: Residents in long-term care facilities are predisposed to healthcare-associated infections that are likely caused by antimicrobial-resistant micro-organisms. Long-term care facilities are increasingly able to offer parenteral antimicro...

ABSTRACT:

Randomized controlled trials have shown that treatment of chronically ventilated preterm infants after the first week of life with dexamethasone reduces the incidence of the combined outcome death or bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). However, ther...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) has a high prevalence in the elderly. It has been recognized as an independent cardiovascular risk factor and detecting CKD is also important to ensure the appropriate dose of medication and to prevent further damage b...

BACKGROUND/AIMS: To compare ophthalmic viscoelastic devices (OVDs) in protecting the cornea from endothelial cell loss during cataract surgery. METHODS: A systematic review yielded 21 randomised controlled trials including 1769 patients. OVDs were...

Over the last 20 years, a substantial change in the epidemiology of acute myocardial syndrome (ACS) has occurred. Non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) now constitutes the majority of AMIs and the 30-days fatality rate of hospita...

INTRODUCTION: a small group of frequent attenders is responsible for a disproportional large percentage of all daytime consultations in general practice. High attendance rates are related to demographic and psychological characteristics. Differenc...

Background. Patients presenting with chest pain have a 5% chance of experiencing a coronary event. These patients are at risk of mortality and should be recognized and referred to secondary care. Aim. To determine the relationship between referr...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: With the increasing interest in lifestyle, health and consequences of unhealthy lifestyles for the healthcare system, a new kind of solidarity is gaining importance: lifestyle solidarity. While it might not seem fair to let oth...

BACKGROUND: Disease management programmes (DMPs) improve quality of care for patients with heart failure (HF). However, only a limited number of trials have studied the efficacy of such programmes for patients with heart failure with preserved eje...

A doxorubicin derivate, SA-17, that carries a squaric acid amide ester moiety at the carbohydrate (α-l-daunosaminyl) group was identified as a selective inhibitor of in vitro dengue virus (DENV) serotype 2 replication (50% effective concentration ...

Vlachojannis et al reported a systematic review on the medicinal use of potato-derived products. The authors identified five trials for inclusion in the review, including one study on the treatment of burns. Based on this RCT the review authors co...

BACKGROUND: Coronary artery calcification (CAC) independently predicts cardiovascular events (CVE) in the general population. Whether this applies to renal transplant recipients (RTR) is unknown. This prospective study assessed the prognostic impa...

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: In the elderly the diagnosis of chronic heart failure is often challenging and the availability of echocardiography can be limited. Plasma levels of NT-proBNP are valuable tools to diagnose patients with heart failure. Howeve...