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Background: Injury rate and injury severity of elderly cyclists due to self-induced cycle accidents increase with age. Starting at the age of 55 years, injury risk increases with a factor 4 at the age of 75 years. Injury mechanisms such as slippery…
The combination of breast surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy have a profound effect on the deep myofascial level and in turn, they create a vicious circle of adhesions and lack of mobility and pain in muscles, fasciae and joints around the…
Combination therapy with telaprevir/ ribavirin is as effective as the current standard of care with peginterferon-alfa/ ribavirin for the treatment of acute Hepatitis C in HIV-infected individuals.
Monitoring a patient’s oxygen status during anesthesia using pulse oximetry is essential. The new Oxygen Reserve Index (ORI) may help provide clinicians real-time visibility to oxygenation in a moderate hypoxic range and serve as a warning of an…
Our hypothesis is that custom made insoles and a home-based exercise program would be superior to a home-based exercise program alone at 12 weeks follow-up.
Aim of the study is to determine how often muscle strength measurements should be repeated, using a hand-held dynamometer to obtain a maximal muscle strength measurement
Delegation of clozapine monitoring tasks to a Nurse Practitioner (condition A) is at least as safe as Treatment As Usual: physicians perform monitoring tasks themselves (condition B).
Painreduction for 67% of patients with a locally advanced or local recurrent pancreatic carcinoma through a short radiotherapy scheme (single arm phase 2 study)
In adult congenital heart disease patients with exercise-induced pulmonary arterial hypertension, treatment with bosentan lowers the mean pulmonary arterial pressure, which may result in improvement of the cardiopulmonary circulation,…
The hypothesis is that minimal invasive surgical ablation through video assisted thoracoscopic surgey as a primary treatment in patients suffering from (longstanding) persistent atrial fibrillation is superior to transvenous catheter ablation
The effectiveness of school-based ('Op Volle Kracht') and computerized ('SPARX') depression prevention programs will be tested in a Dutch sample of adolescent girls with elevated depressive symptoms. The programs will be tested…
Is a prevention program, based on principles of health behavior change, education about playing-related musculoskeletal disorders and postural training, more effective in preventing and/ or reducing disabilities from musculoskeletal complaints in…
The null-hypothesis predicts that Inlife is not feasible. The alternative hypothesis predicts that the Inlife intervention is evaluated as being feasible. We expect the alternative hypothesis to be true. Inlife will be feasible and minor revisions…
1) The knowledge of the legal aspects of health care and medical negligence/errors among medical residents is larger in the intervention group than for the control group 2) The flipped classroom model is effective as a teaching method in post…
The EuraHS-QoL questionnaire is a valid instrument to measure quality-of-life before and after ventral hernia repair.
Refinement of the CHIP prediction rule will lead to a more efficient use of head CT in patients with minor head injury
The hypothesis is, when adolescents are screened for problems at an early stage and do get help, they will be less absent from school and will have less psychosocial problems.
To use the GSV for bypass surgery it is of the utmost importance to subtract the vein with as limited damage as possible. To harvest the GSV three techniques are generally used, namely; Standard reversed technique using additional incisions in the…
Objective: The overall aim of this project is to asses the prognostic value of the characteristics of an echocardiographic surrogate pressure-volume loop on mortality and morbidity due to PAH.
Objectives are: 1) To determine the feasibility of an OA educational self-management course, by assessing the appreciation of health care providers and participants, participation and barriers and facilitators to participation. 2) To determine…