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In the RIO study programme, the efficacy of rimonabant was examined. The next step is to assess the use of rimonabant, its safety and effectiveness in daily practice. In daily practice people also have other diseases, may use other medication and…
1. The point of the skin with best possible transcutaneous nerve stimulation correlates with the point of the skin most superficial to the nerves stimulated within a range of 3 mm; 2. Ultrasound will reveal a significant number of sensitive…
1. ICVAD removal, followed by six months of silicone gel sheet use, will result in a scar width within the normal range, and normal scar structure, and thus will be superior to two months of silicone gel sheets and no gel sheets; 2. A smaller and/…
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We hypothesize that a treatment algorithm that is based on a simple validated measure of health status (CCQ) improves quality of life (as measured on a separate scale) and other classical COPD outcome measurement parameters such as exacerbation…
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…
A specific set of variables of impairments are related/ predictive of functional limitations and disabilities. A specific set of variables of functional limitations are related/ predictive of disabilities. Psychological variables (defined by TPB,…
The hypothesis to be tested that the outcome in arm B is better than in arm A.
Heart rate variability measures correlate with pain intensity in patients with advanced cancer.
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.
Because of the high cardiovascular risk profile and functional disabilities of obese long-standing type 2 diabetes patients, therapeutic exercise programs have hardly been evaluated in this subpopulation. The current research proposal aims to…
The objective of the study is to identify factors associated with anterior knee pain after primary total knee replacement.
The percutaneous and lipofilling technique has a shorter convalescence.
The aim of the study is: 1. To investigate the benefits and risks of hormonal substitution after prophylactic adnectomy in women with an increased risk for breast- and/or ovarian cancer due to a genetic predisposition; 2. To compare the effects and…
To study the accuracy of the PISAPED perfusion scan criteria compared with CT scanning in patients aged < or = 50 years with suspected pulmonary embolism, a likley or high clinical probability and/or an abnormal D-dimer.
We propose that kinase activity profiling may be a potential clinical diagnostic tool to predict for tumor response to targeted therapy with tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI's).
The pharmacotherapeutic treatment of patients with cancer is generally associated with multiple side-effects. The cause of the side-effects is usually due to the toxicity of the drugs themselves. In addition, drug interactions can intensify side-…
Based on its general pro-hemostatic potential, prothrombin complex concentrate may be effective in (completely or partially) reversing the anticoagulant effect of the new antithrombotic agents Dabigatran and Rivaroxaban.
MR Elastography can be used as a non-invasive tool to diagnose, stage and monitor liver fibrosis. MR Elastography has a better accuracy than FibroScan for the assessment of intermediate fibrosis stages.
There might be biomarkers in infected synovial tissue which have predicting value on the effectiveness of Abatacept on RA.