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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…
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.
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 objective of the study is to identify factors associated with anterior knee pain after primary total knee replacement.
Peri-operative interventions improve fragile patients functional health status, reduce complications and length of stay in hospital after elective surgery.
A positive effect of the investigational product on the intestinal microbiota of healthy Asian toddlers is expected.
1. Cooling to 34, 34.5 or 35°C by means of a surface cooling device, started within 4.5 hours after the onset of acute ischaemic stroke and maintained for 24 hours in awake patients on a stroke unit is safe; 2. In awake patients with ischaemic…
1. Cancer survivors who received the high-intensity exercise program will have significantly higher muscle strength, cardiopulmonary function, and health-related quality of life after 12 weeks intervention compared to cancer survivors who received…
We therefore hypothesize that FABP/Claudin levels may be used as a diagnostic tool for the identification of intra-abdominal injury necessitating surgery and as a prognostic marker for the development of SIRS/MOF (and morbidity and mortality) in…
We want to test the hypothesis that internet based guided self-help is not more expensive and not less effective than usual care for patients with phobias.
The effectiveness of the experimental conditions depends on the motivational characteristics of the person. 1. The sequential condition will lead to 10% behavior change in one behavior after two years, if a person is only motivated to change one…
The stepped care programme which aims to prevent clinical depression in frail elderly with a subclinical depression, and reduces the level of depressive symptoms in frail elderly with a clinical depression is applicable in primary care.
Alle Leerlingen Actief! (ALA) works both on the intrinsic motivation of inactive students to become more physically active, as it promotes the activity-friendly environment in and around schools. Motivational interviewing techniques will be used to…
The percentage of curatively treatable metastatic disease after surgery for primary colorectal cancer can be increased by means of optimizing follow-up of colorectal carcinoma. Intensifying the follow-up by increasing frequency of CEA measurements…
Establishing the cause of pleural disease often is a great challenge. Definitive diagnosis of pleural disease needs histological confirmation in most cases. Clinical suspicion of malignancy often indicates prompt use of invasive procedures like…
The nephrotoxicity caused by cisplatin is of great concern both in that it is dose-limiting and can be detrimental to the patient. Much work has been done to reduce or prevent this damage to renal cells, however to date the best approach has reduced…
The individual patient can make a well-informed choice for a treatment by using audio-visual aids.
radiological factors for DRUJ instability may account for DRUJ instability in patients after a consolidated distal radius fracture with negative influence on outcome
A positive effect of a Growing Up Milk with added prebiotics or prebiotics and LCPUFA on the intestinal microbiota of toddlers.
In patients with WAD the strength of the relationship between self reported disability and work capacity is weak to moderate (correlation coefficient between r=0.25 and r=0.75). Work capacity and performance can be predicted with the help of…