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Helium can be safely used in patients admitted to the ICU after resuscitation for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
Tailoring elastic compression therapy to individual patients needs will not lead to an increased incidence of the post thrombotic syndrome, substantial costs will be saved and the quality of life of individual patients will improve.
A structured diagnostic-therapeutic strategy to detect and treat previously unrecognized (or unestablished) heart failure in primary care will improve the quality of care, the quality of life, and eventually the prognosis of these patients.
Is there a difference in the recurrence rate if you treat a cyst or abscess of the bartholin gland with a marsupialization or placement of a word catheter.
We hypothesize that subjects suffering from hypothalamic dysfunction may have a hyposerotonergic neurotransmission. Therefore we will investigate if there are differences in specific hypothalamic-to-nonspecific [123I]FP-CIT binding ratios using…
1. The treatment group will increase their Theory of Mind skills in comparison to the waitlist control group; 2. The conceptual skills will improve at a higher rate than the practical skills.
The aim of this study is to determine the (cost)effectiveness of a home-based functional training programme as compared to regular physical therapy with regard to the ability to live independently and participation of frail elderly of 75 years and…
We hypothesize that the Ketogenic diet will be cost-effective compared to usual care.
To determine the correlation between enhancement curves at DCE-MRI with T1-map and the level of histopathological activity.
Reducing postoperative pain with a mini-sling.
1. The point of the skin with best possible transcutaneous nerve stimulation correlates with the point of the skin most superficial to the nerves stimulated within a range of 3 mm; 2. Ultrasound will reveal a significant number of sensitive…
What is the prevalence of dysplasia or carcinoma in patients with Crohn's disease that undergo surveillance endoscopy with chromoendoscopy-guided confocal laser endomicroscopy?
The objective of the study is to identify factors associated with anterior knee pain after primary total knee replacement.
The percutaneous and lipofilling technique has a shorter convalescence.
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Because of the high cardiovascular risk profile and functional disabilities of obese long-standing type 2 diabetes patients, therapeutic exercise programs have hardly been evaluated in this subpopulation. The current research proposal aims to…
Training medical specialists in consultation skills focused on MUPS patients improves the specialistic care for these patients in terms of illness worries, course of symptoms and daily functioning and reduces the medical costs for this patient group…
The primary research hypotheses are: 1. Patients who follow the Onco-Move program will achieve better physical fitness levels, as assessed by objective performance tests, and will report less fatigue than patients in the usual care control group; 2…
Public health authorities have recognized lack of hand hygiene (HH) as one of the important causes of preventable mortality and morbidity at population level. Both at national (UK, USA, Dutch VMS) and international levels (WHO) poor HH has been…
We hypothesize that a treatment algorithm that is based on a simple validated measure of health status (CCQ) improves quality of life (as measured on a separate scale) and other classical COPD outcome measurement parameters such as exacerbation…