Introduction: This study evaluates the course of physical fitness and nutritional status during curative therapy for esophageal cancer, after implementation of a prehabilitation program. Additionally, the impact of baseline physical fitness level and severe postoperative complications on the course of …

Oncology physiotherapists frequently provide care for patients experiencing severe immunosuppression. Exercise immunology, the science that studies the effects of exercise on the immune system, is a rapidly evolving field with direct relevance to oncology physiotherapists. Understanding oncology physiotherapists’ …

Personalised interventions are recommended to optimise participation in prehabilitation programmes, but this requires insight into what motivates patients to participate in, and complete, such programmes. We investigated the experiences of patients with oesophageal cancer who had participated in a prehabilitation …

Background: to optimize prehabilitation for patients with oesophageal cancer, insight is required into the response to prehabilitation, and factors affecting this response. This study investigated (1) the response to prehabilitation in patients with oesophageal cancer following neoadjuvant treatment, …

De digitalisering binnen de zorgsector heeft geleid tot aanzienlijke veranderingen in de manier waarop zorgdossiers worden beheerd. Voor verpleegkundigen in opleiding betekent dit dat zij moeten leren werken met deze digitale tools. Om hen hierop voor te bereiden, willen onderwijsinstellingen een zo …

Abstract Background Despite eforts to improve undergraduate clinical pharmacology & therapeutics (CPT) education, prescribing errors are still made regularly. To improve CPT education and daily prescribing, it is crucial to understand how therapeutic reasoning works. Therefore, the aim of this study …

Since 2018, proton therapy (PT) has rapidly advanced in the Netherlands and other countries, but there is still a shortage of skilled professionals like RTTs, dosimetrists, and medical physicists/physicians. In collaboration with HollandPTC, Inholland University developed three master modules: Proton …

Recommendations for EU pharmaceutical legislation: published in www.thelancet.com/planetary-health Vol 8 October 2024

Abstract Background: Evaluating a patient's medication list is critical to reduce prescribing errors (PEs), but is a labour- and time-intensive process. Identification of patients at risk of PEs could improve the allocation of scarce time and resources, but currently available prediction tools are not …

Het tegengaan van hittestress is een van de grote uitdagingen bij het leefbaar houden van de stad. Door klimaatverandering neemt het aantal extreem warme dagen toe. Daarnaast is het in de stad doorgaans warmer dan in de omringende rurale gebieden, het zogenaamde hitte-eiland-effect. Hoge temperaturen …