There is increasing awareness that, besides patient survival, Quality of Life (QOL) is a relevant outcome factor for patients who have a chronic disease. In haemodialysis (HD) patients, intradialytic hypotension (IDH) is considered one of the most frequent complications, and this is often accompanied …

Het perspectief van verloskundigen op wat ‘vrouwcentrale zorg’ betekent, is niet eenduidig. Yvonne Fontein en collega’s onderzochten de verschillende perspectieven van Nederlandse verloskundigen die ‘vrouwcentraal’ willen werken. Bespreking van: Fontein-Kuipers et al. : Dutch midwives’ views on and …

The debate about the world wide web is of vital importance. Will it remain the democratic place of unconditional meeting and community building, or will it become a tool in the hands of governments, trillion dollar companies and the mafia, in order to secretly establish a dictatorship of control and …

Door verbinding te maken met de traumatische ervaringen van vrouwen, kunnen we als vroedvrouwen mogelijk leren van deze ervaringen en de impact op het leven van vrouwen en hun gezin. Begrijpen wat er precies gebeurt tijdens deze bevallingen kan leiden tot aanbevelingen voor de verloskundige zorg om mogelijk …

Background Woman-centred care is a philosophy for midwifery care management of the childbearing woman. There is no mutually recognised internalised way in midwifery to provide woman-centred care. Objective To reveal midwives’ distinct perspectives about woman-centred care. Methods A Q-methodology …

Background: Pregnant women use childbirth reality programs to prepare themselves for childbirth. It is unknown how shared decision-making in intrapartum midwifery care is represented in televised birth. We aimed to explore the portrayal of shared decision-making during labour and birth in lifetime documentary …

Wine tourism suffers from decreasing number of tourists during the low season which is a problem when wineries’ profits mostly come from tourists’ purchases. Focus of this research was on small wineries as they do not benefit from the same renown as big historic wineries. Moreover, wine business is not …

Introduction In 2016 a new form of integrated community treatment for patients with serious mental illnesses was implemented in two neighborhoods in the city of Utrecht (335000 inhabitants) in the Netherlands. Treatment is characterized by close collaboration of psychiatric care, somatic care (i.e. general …

Actieonderzoek wordt ingezet bij innovatie, ontwikkelings-, leer- en bewustwordingsprocessen. Dit kan de onderwijspraktijk voor veel docenten en leerkrachten verrijken, in het bijzonder in het contact met de leerling. Maar let wel op: zorg voor een goed fundament voor je eraan begint.