Background Specialist palliative care teams are consulted during hospital admission for advice on complex palliative care. These consultations need to be timely to prevent symptom burden and maintain quality of life. Insight into specialist palliative care teams may help improve the outcomes of palliative …

Bijna de helft van de cliënten in de gehandicaptenzorg zou ook een ggz-diagnose moeten hebben en omgekeerd. Toch krijgt in de praktijk maar een klein aantal cliënten zo’n dubbele diagnose. Financiële prikkels spelen daarbij een rol. Tijd om de grenzen tussen de vgz en de ggz op te heffen, vinden drie …

IMPORTANCE: Sarcopenia and obesity are 2 global concerns associated with adverse health outcomes in older people. Evidence on the population-based prevalence of the combination of sarcopenia with obesity (sarcopenic obesity [SO]) and its association with mortality are still limited. OBJECTIVE: To investigate …

COVID-19 has complicated grieving experiences. Rich qualitative description of these experiences is lacking. We interviewed 10 bereaved relatives (mainly daughters) 2–3 times each: shortly after their relative died in the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic, and after 12 and 18 months (29 interviews in total). …

Inleiding: Uit de interne beleidsnotitie van het UMCG blijkt dat bij de verpleegkundigen de geleerde theorie in de vorm van werken met verpleegkundige diagnoses, resultaten en interventies onvoldoende terug komt in de praktijk. Dit lijdt binnen het UMCG tot een verminderde kwaliteit van (verpleegkundige) …

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the common neurodegenerative disorder and the most frequent cause of dementia. The disease accounts around 80% of all dementia diagnoses. The main reason of developing AD is amyloid cascade which starts from missense mutations in APP (amyloid precursor protein), Rho-associated …

Background Psychiatric comorbidity is high in adults with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), with up to 90% having at least one additional condition, and two-thirds having two or more other diagnoses. With an increasing aging population in industrialized counties, knowing which psychiatric disorders …

People with a ‘severe mental illness’ (SMI) are those who suffer from a psychiatric illness for a prolonged period of time that seriously affects their social functioning, professional functioning and functioning in the community, and who are in need of professional care or treatment. SMI is not limited …

This study aims to explore the experiences and needs of individuals after a first episode of psychosis with regard to the way in which information about diagnosis, treatment options and prognosis is communicated with them. psychosis, communicating, stigma, needs, individual’s perception

Perfusie Magnetic Resonance Imaging (pMRI) is een veelgebruikte methode om een hersentumor of uitzaaiingen hiervan te monitoren. Om duidelijke richtlijnen te kunnen geven over de implementatie van de pMRI voor het houden van toezicht op hersentumoren in Nederland, is men een onderzoek gestart, genaamd …