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1. The recognition of malnourished inpatients will improve by using the SNAQ malnutrition screening tool at admission; 2. Early recognition and treatment of malnutrition is effective and cost effective.
Hard-core smokers are smokers who have been smoking for many years and who do not intend to quit. This makes them vulnerable to disease and death. Since hard-core smokers are unlikely to quit smoking, before aiming at actually quitting, we first…
Opening wedge HTO treated with DBM will better match one year post-operative mechanical axis alignement with pre-operative planned correction then opening wedeg HTO filled with autogenous iliac crest bone.
The temporal artery biopsy has no additional value after a halo sign using ultrasound of the temporal artery
We believe that a routine graft biopsy at 6 and 12 months together with graft function represents the best surrogate marker for late graft loss.
Age associated molecullar processess are involved in rotator cuff degeneration and the presence of rotator cuff tears
The implicit training (AAT) added to standard behaviour therapy will reduce relapse rates after treatment when compared to the control group.
We hypothesize that age-related changes in hepatic and intestinal drug metabolism affect the pharmacokinetics of paracetamol.
We expect that when the developed checklist will be used in de diagnostic proces of children with developmental and/or behavioral disability, the use of pediatric care will be more efficiently used. Over and underdiagnoses of a causal somatic…
Evaluation of efficacy and safety of two different formulas of alfa-Galactosidase A, agalsidase beta (FabrazymeTM) and agalsidase alpha (ReplagalTM) in an equal dose of 0,2 mg/kg in order to detect any differences between these two drugs.
Botulinum toxin A declines the severity of tardive dyskinisias.
A self-management program including self-treatment of exacerbations, leads to a reduction in the severity and duration of exacerbation compared to a similar self-management program without these self-treatment guidelines in hospital out-patients…
Whole Body Vibration (WBV) applied via a chair has positive chronic effects on cognitive function of older people.
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/…
Preoperative physiotherapy decreased the incidence of postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) after open heart surgery on patients with an increased risk of developing PPCs.
To what extent will the introduction of the C-Reactive Protein (CRP) point of care test and enhanced communication skills for managing lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) in general practice, either separately or combined, lead to 1. an…
A 10% point difference between the experimental and control group in HPV-vaccination uptake is expected. Assuming 58% of participants daughters in the control group receive two HPV-injections and a 10% point difference between the experimental and…
We hypothesize that diagnostic accuracy increases when, apart from cytologic samples, material is aspirated for thin layer preparation in endoscopic-ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) of masses.
An intervention with a fortified drink containing iron, zinc, vitamin A, vitamin C, folate, vitamin B-12 and B-6 and/or omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids over one year can improve cognitive performance in Australian well-nourished children and…
Test weighing using a double-check weighing method is precise in determining infant intake: in more than 90% of weighings test weighing will be within 5ml of the actual amount drunk