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The AMSTAD-OCD study aims to contribute to the improvement of outcome in OCD by identifying the determinants of a chronic course.
Explore the efficacy, safety and tolerability of oral R129160, 60 mg o.d. in patients with chronic idiopathic urticaria
Screening causes a difference in prostate cancer mortality of 20% or more.
The aim of this study is to pass of the care for patients with fibromyalgia more efficiently through the cooperation of the rheumatologist and the nurse specialist. Because of this, the rheumatology outpatient department can be relieved partly,…
We hypothesize that the use of low dose gonadotrophin therapy, will prove to be more efficient than CC when used as first line treatment.
1. When patients visit their GPs with unexplained complaints it is cost effective to follow a watchful waiting strategy of four weeks before ordering laboratory tests; 2. A systematically developed quality improvement strategy, based on barriers…
The hypothesis of this study is that the new opioid remifentanil will provide less side-effects and better painrelief during labour, than the conventional opioids fentanyl and pethidine.
Active treatment of acute gouty arthritis by a short course of oral prednisone or naproxen are equal.
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We hypothesize that lung protective mechanical ventilation, using lower tidal volumes, attenuates mechanical ventilation induced pulmonary inflammation.
The use of a new protocol of exercise testing with use of blood pressure measurement, near infrared spectroscopy and pedal force measurement will improve the diagnostic value of the current decision algorithm used to diagnose functional iliac flow…
The hypothesis of this study is that the addition of recLH (Luveris) to a protocol of recFSH (Gonal-F) and GnRH antagonist (Cetrotide) will improve the pregnancy rates in women over the age of 35 years undergoing IVF/ET.
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1. Self-efficacy expectancies may increase by the "Chronic Disease Self-Management Program" in congestive heart failure intervention patients as compared to controls; 2. These higher levels of self-efficacy expectancies contribute to…
The Internet 'Self-Examination Therapy' (SET) on anxiety, depression and burn-out wil be effective in reduction of complaints (depression, anxiety, burn-out).
Pre- and probiotics are able to change the composition of the altered intestinal microbiota that is found in allergic patients, indicating beneficial effects of these nutritional components in the prevention and treatment of allergic diseases. The…
1. Regular physical follow-up can partly be replaced by nurse-led telephone follow-up, with at least similar quality of life (QoL), in breast cancer patients treated with curative intent. ( change in QoL < 5 points) 2. An informative/…
The experimental group 2 (addition of action plans) will outperform the experimental group 1 (no action plans) with 10% at the last post-test after 12 months.
Care providers are more likely to adhere to clinical practice guidelines when they receive guideline-based decision support by an electronic system.
In this study, we expect to decrease the number of referrals and repeat smears by immediately referring those women who are positive for hrHPV with mildly abnormal smears for colposcopically-directed biopsies. Thus, for the remaining women with BMD…