BACKGROUND: Assessment of malnutrition is important in cancer patients. The Scored Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA), an instrument that enables interdisciplinary assessment of malnutrition and its risk factors, was not available in Dutch. OBJECTIVE: Translation and cultural adaption …

Purpose of review To help guide metabolic support in critical care, an understanding of patients’ nutritional status and risk is important. Several methods to monitor lean body mass are increasingly used in the ICU and knowledge about their advantages and limitations is essential. Recent findings Computed …

De centrale vraag van dit onderzoek is: ‘Hoe kan X een onderscheidende positie verkrijgen bij de doelgroep om zo het marktaandeel binnen de Nederlandse radiomarkt te vergroten?’. Het doel van het onderzoek is om inzicht geven in de wensen en behoeften van de doelgroep van X met betrekking tot de avondshow …

The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy of an online self-tracking program on physical activity, glycated hemoglobin, and other health measures in patients with type 2 diabetes. Seventy-two patients with type 2 diabetes were randomly assigned to an intervention or control group. All participants …

Background and Purpose: Decreased muscle mass and muscle strength are independent predictors of poor postoperative recov- ery in patients with esophageal cancer. If there is an association between muscle mass and muscle strength, physiotherapists are able to measure muscle strength as an early predictor …

OBJECTIVES: Children diagnosed with auditory processing disorders (APD) experience difficulties in auditory functioning and with memory, attention, language, and reading tasks. However, it is not clear whether the behavioral characteristics of these children are distinctive from the behavioral characteristics …

Purpose of reviewSkeletal muscle mass with aging, during critical care, and following critical care is a determinant of quality of life and survival. In this review, we discuss the mechanisms that underpin skeletal muscle atrophy and recommendations to offset skeletal muscle atrophy with aging and during, …

In de periode rond de millenniumwisseling zijn veel publicaties uitgebracht over toekomstige ontwikkelingen op het gebied van arbeid (onder meer Van Driel 2001; Gaspersz & Verhoeff 2001; Leijnse 2002; Licher 2001; Paauwe & Williams 1999; Schnabel 2000; Weehuizen 2000). In diezelfde periode heb ik met …

OBJECTIVES: To elucidate the role and pathways of psychosocial home demands, psychosocial home resources, and psychosocial job resources in relation to sickness absence among nurses working in residential elder care. METHODS: Longitudinal (SEM) analyses with bootstrapping with a 1 year follow-up among …