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Point of care testing with Fcal POCT will reduce substantial the referral rate of children with chronic GI symptoms to the paediatrician.
To enhance the (functional) communicative skills of children/adolescents with severe communicative problems with the use of specialized AAC aids in order to optimize their participation at home, in school and other social contexts.
The primary objective of this study is to determine whether 3D kinematics, kinetics and spatiotemporal parameters during walking on the V-Gait system are comparable to overground walking in children with cerebral palsy and in healthy children…
The primary objective is to obtain insight in regional differences in lung volume and ventilation distribution during apnea of prematurity and its farmacological treatment. Furthermore, the effect on these parameters due to position changes and non-…
In this study we will provide reference values using the single occlusion technique in healthy infants aged 2 months - 1 year.
Primary Objectives:To (1) Assess the feasibility and tolerability of performing US and/or contrast-enhanced MRI in children with central venous catheters (CVCs) or peripherally inserted central catheters (PICC lines); (2) assess the accuracy of US…
Is it possible to make a discrimination in muscle activity between the right and left puborectalis muscle by using concentric needle electrodes in an electromyography investigation of the pelvic floor muscles?When a asymmetry is found, what can be…
1. To assess reference values of a pre-defined set of biomarkers for AKI in *surgical* infants with normal kidney function.2. To determine the incidence of AKI in critically ill infants, according to pRIFLE criteria.3. To evaluate the sensitivity…
To determine normative data for the newly developed digit speech-in-noise test in normal hearing (NH) children.
Primary ObjectiveTo define normal values for synovial thickness in the healthy pediatric knee and wrist on MRI after intravenous gadolinium contrast administration. Secondary ObjectiveTo evaluate possible age-dependent variations in normal values…
To confirm the previously reported negative predictive value of urine NTproBNP for ROP in large, multi center cohort of preterm infants.
To assess the prevalence, severity and impact of arthropathy in patients with moderate or severe VWD and a history of documented DDAVP or clotting factor concentrate treatment for joint bleeds. To compare arthropathy in these patients to age, FVIII…
1. To identify and specify bacteria by using RT-PCR on blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in preterm infants, having nosocomial sepsis and meningitis.2. To compare RT-PCR (see aim 1) with the gold standard bacterial culture in preterm infants,…
1. To determine clinical symptoms of Dientamoeba fragilis infection. 2. To evaluate the efficacy and safety of clioquinol versus metronidazol in the treatment of Dientamoeba fragilis in children.3. To evaluate the duration of positive PCR…
Primary - to determine factors that predict outcome in children with symptomatic heart failure secondary to cardiomyopathy, in order to choose an optimal management strategy for these children. Secondary - to identify predictive factors that can be…
1. To decrease the proportion of infants treated with antibiotics for > 48 - 72 hours with possible or unlikely infection, with unchanged outcome. 2. To reduce the duration of antibiotic therapy
To investigate long-term outcome, both medical and psychological, of CPR in children.
To find out if the mean thyroid volumes of healthy 10-12 and 17-18 years old Dutch children and adolescents are the same or larger than in the late nineteen nineties, and if the dietary iodine intake of these children and adolescents has decreased…
Both RCTs and long-term follow-up studies are required to establish optimal fetal management and provide clinicians a better understanding of the impact of these early interventions on child development in order to improve the quality of antenatal…
The purpose of the project is a) to examine evidence-based instruments (DFSI, ASQ:(SE) and ITSEA) in the Netherlands in practices of midwives and within the system of health care and b) to gain more insight into the role of specific risk- and…