From the article: With increasing investments in business rules management (BRM), organizations are searching for ways to value and benchmark their processes to elicitate, design, accept, deploy and execute business rules. To realize valuation and benchmarking of previously mentioned processes, organizations …

Purpose Honours programs prepare talented students to become future excellent professionals . However, competences defining an excellent professional have not been elucidated yet. We investigated how professionals characterize an excellent communication professional, aiming to develop a competence profile …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a model on how business managers perceive that an employee’s psychological contract influences his or her attitude toward an organizational change. More specifically, it aims to provide insight into the managerial views on: first, the affective, behavioral …

Studenten in het hbo ervaren nogal wat onzekerheid tijdens het doen van onderzoek. Dat is lastig, want teveel onzekerheid verlamt de student in het onderzoeksproces. Toch is enige mate van onzekerheid nuttig voor het ontwikkelen van een reflectieve en onderzoekende houding. Dan moet er wel sprake zijn …

Background: In the Netherlands, most patients with severe mental illness (SMI) receive flexible assertive community treatment (FACT) provided by multidisciplinary community mental health teams. SMI patients with comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are sometimes offered evidence-based trauma-focused …

Background: In postoperative pain treatment patients are asked to rate their pain experience on a single uni-dimensional pain scale. Such pain scores are also used as indicator to assess the quality of pain treatment. However, patients may differ in how they interpret the Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) …

In de geestelijke gezondheidszorg (GGZ) wordt door veel organisaties herstelondersteunende zorg aangeboden, als onderdeel van de behandeling van mensen met ernstige psychische aandoeningen (EPA). Met deze manier van werken wordt getracht om EPA-cliënten meer controle over hun eigen leven te laten krijgen. …

Door de maatschappelijke veranderingen en de veranderingen in de zorgsector is de laatste jaren de complexiteit van de zorg toegenomen. Om kosten te beheersen en te zorgen voor veilige en kwalitatief goede zorg is een juiste patiëntentoewijzing essentieel. Dit heeft gevolgen voor de inzet van de verpleegkundigen …

Author supplied Business rules play a critical role in an organization’s daily activities. With the increased use of business rules (solutions) the interest in modelling guidelines that address the manageability of business rules has increased as well. However, current research on modelling guidelines …

This thesis provides a report on research aimed at enhancing treatment of patients with bipolar disorder. We describe various aspects of treatment of bipolar disorder. The central study reported in this thesis is an effect study of a multicomponent intervention, Collaborative Care. Chapter 1 describes …