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Focusing on disease-modifying rather than etiologic mechanisms may accelerate the development of novel therapies and complement current research initiatives on causative mechanisms and curative therapies.
Education on guidelines, combined with quality targets within the accreditation procedure improves quality of antibiotic prescribing
The expected sensitivity of the CardioWatch 287 is 95%, as compared to the classical resting ECG recording. Sensitivity is defined as the percentage of HR and RR-intervals detected by the smartwatch, matching with the resting ECG recording.
Different prevention strategies are used internationally to prevent Early-onset Group B haemolytic streptococcus infection (EOGBS). However, none of the preventive EOGBS strategies in place at present result in the complete prevention of EOGBS,…
The purpose of the study is to evaluate the outcomes and midterm follow-up in the mini-gastric bypass in terms of weight loss, resolution of co-morbidities and the impact of different BP-limb lengths.
Obesity is a growing world wide problem. In The Netherlands, about 10% of all men and women have a BMI of 30 kg/m2 or more. Obesity is a chronic, uncurable metabolic disorder, which is characterised by excessive fatstorage at unfavorable places.…
We expect that planned visits at the outpatient clinic are unnecessary due to low percentage of treatment changes. Furthermore, we expect that treatment changes will appear at unplanned visits.
The level of AGEs can predict response to intravitreal anti-VEGF therapy in DME
The primary objective of this study is to determine whether thrombectomy combined with ischemic postconditioning after PCI leads to a smaller myocardial infarction compared to standard therapy.
The purpose of this research is to acquire a better understanding of the pain experience and the recovery of children between 1.5 and 5 years old who underwent a tonsillectomy/adenotonsillectomy. Primary research question: What is the influence of…
The national quality improvement program palliative care will improve quality of palliative care on a national level and the separate trajectories implementing ‘good practices’ will improve quality of palliative care on the regional and…
There is no difference between CT- and MRI-based Patient specific matched instruments for total knee arthroplasty
This research aims to determine factors involved in subfertility and serious pregnancy complications that arise early in pregnancy. Due to increased insight into the pathogenesis of these conditions, primary prevention should ultimately be possible.
Presenting complaints have an different distribution among hospitals and age and there are differences in the association with relevant clinical outcomes between hospitals.
Comparing the tumor tissue of patients with a breast cancer relapse to the tumor tissue of their primary breast cancer may help to identify mechanisms that are responsible for the relapse after exposure to anticancer agents, and thus further our…
Spinal anesthesia induces several alterations in normal brain processes. Firstly, loss of afferent information increases pain sensitivity. In our previous study on the effects of spinal anesthesia (P11.221) we showed that subjects felt more pain…
We hypothesize that with this new stable isotope dilution method we will be able to assess the bioequivalence of dietary pro-vitamin A intake in future studies.
We expect that the intervention is also effective on the long term. However, we expect that the depression scores may have increased somewhat, compared to post-treatment.
Addition of Platelet Rich Stroma in the surgical treatment of Crohn’s perianal fistulas improves radiographic healing.
Application of the SeMaS questionnaire and subsequent personalized self management support will be more effective in enhancing patients’ self management behaviors than care as usual.