Background: In Western healthcare policies, promotion of self-management of patients is an important topic. Currently, there is also a worldwide interest in the integration of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and conventional medicine into integrative medicine. This article explores the contribution …

Background: Accounting for the patients’ perspective on quality of care has become increasingly important in the development of Evidence Based Medicine as well as in governmental policies. In the Netherlands the Consumer Quality (CQ) Index has been developed to measure the quality of care from the patients’ …

Achtergrond: de wijkverpleegkundige krijgt steeds meer te maken met een veranderde cliënten populatie. De wijkverpleegkundigen komen thuis bij de cliënt om voornamelijk somatische zorg te verlenen. Het blijkt dat wijkverpleegkundigen te weinig inhoudelijke expertise ervaren vanuit hun eigen vakgebied …

Deze bundel met topartikelen is al de zevende in de succesvolle reeks met winnende artikelen in de jaarlijkse artikelenwedstrijd van vierdejaars studenten van de sociale opleidingen van de HU. Wearables en hulpverlening Charlotte Lina van de opleiding Maatschappelijk Werk en Dienstverlening won met haar …

Purpose To provide a qualitative investigation of aspects that matter to patients regarding quality of life (QOL) and other perceived treatment effects of anthroposophic healthcare (AH). It is a first step in the development of patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) for AH.Hence, it will contribute …

Objectives: Direct access is a term that describes the ability of patients to seek healthcare from midlevel dental providers (MLDPs) without first seeing a dentist. Theobjective of this study was to synthesize the evidence for the effects and costs ofdirect access to MLDPs in a primary dental care environment …

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