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As compared to care as usual Assertive Community Treatment for the elderly creates: 1. Dropout prevention; 2. Decrease in psychiatric symptoms; 3. Decrease in somatic symptoms; 4. Decrease in social problems; 5. Increase in Quality of Live.
Covered self-expandable metal stents for benign biliary strictures: a prospective multicenter trial.
Benign biliary strictures occur most frequently after surgical procedures, chronic pancreatitis or iatrogenic ampullary stenosis. Traditionally, surgery has been the treatment of choice. A less invasive alternative is endoscopic or percutaneous…
Inspiratory Muscle Training during primary rehabilitation will improve respiratory function in Spinal Cord Injury. Respiratory Muscle Training will decrease the risk for long-term respiratory symptoms and complications in persons with spinal cord…
As the anterolateral approach is also a routine procedure, and to test how minimally invasive MIS is, we hypothesized that patients treated with a THA using a posterolateral or anterolateral MIS would experience superior clinical results compared…
Early prostate cancer may safely be managed with an active surveillance strategy, avoiding overtreatment and the risk of resulting side effects.
Does preconditioning prior to an esophaguscardiaresection result in enhanced mental state, cardiopulmonairy condition and nutritional status.
Genestein inhibits the synthesis of heparan sulphate and can possibly slow down disease progression in Sanfilippo Syndrome patients.
Development of early-onset dementia (EOD) is very radical and disabling for both patient and family, due to the still prominent role of the patient in society. Except for knowledge on cognitive disorders not much is known about other disabling…
Shoulder pain is related to somatosensory and nociceptive changes in the acute phase after stroke. These changes may indicate the involvement of specific mechanisms (nociceptive, neuropathic) of post-stroke shoulder pain. Changes may either precede…
Modifications in surgical technique and rehabiliation procedures will improve survival of the Oxford UKA.
1. A treatment strategy aimed at well controlled asthma is more (cost-)effective as compared to a treatment strategy aimed at achieving partly controlled asthma; 2. A treatment strategy aimed at well controlled asthma is (cost-)effective when the…
MTFC-P will be more effective on the prevention of out of homeplacements than TFC for young foster children.
To quantify the amount of local anaesthetic in blood and tissue fluid in the Bellovac ABT system and in the blood circulation of the patient. The primary objective is to quantify the cumulative ropivacaine level when the blood should be retransfused…
We hypothesize that allergic asthmatics are less capable in resolving inflammatory cells after viral airway infection as a consequences of impaired expression of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase.
Een klinisch behandelprogramma met een opnameduur van acht weken gevolgd door een intensief vervolgprogramma voor kinderen (8-19 jr.) met ernstige obesitas is kosten effectiever dan een klinische interventie met een opnameduur van zes maanden en…
Our hypothesis is that routine application of elastic stockings after varicose vein surgery is not beneficial with regard to pain- and physical functioning scores, complications, edema formation, time before returning to work and analgesics…
Brief sex counselling will improve (mental) health and will be at least as effective as but less expensive than a longer and more intensive sexological treatment.
Computer-tailored safety information combined with personal counseling results in: 1. Improved parents¡¦ child safety behaviors; 2. Improved satisfaction with different elements of intervention.
Smoking cessation after development of coronary heart disease improves prognosis more than any other treatment and prevents future cardiovascular diseases. This study aims to provide hospitalized coronary heart disease patients who smoke with proven…
This study aims at testing the effectiveness of a web-based self-help intervention for people with mild to moderate suicidal thoughts.