BACKGROUND: Burns occur frequently in young children. To date, insufficient data are available to fully describe the functional consequences of burns. In different patient populations and countries, the WeeFIM instrument ("WeeFIM") often is used to measure functional independence in children. OBJECTIVE: …

De Heart Rate Variability (HRV) wordt gebruikt om het functioneren van het autonome zenuwsysteem vast te leggen. De HRV is meetbaar met behulp van de elektrocardiografie. De belangstelling voor de HRV meeting neemt binnen de (para)medische wereld explosief toe ondanks dat er nog geen eenduidige conclusies …

Because dental health and oral pathology may affect forensic psychiatric patients' well being, it is important to be able to assess oral health related quality of life (OH-QoL) in these patients. Two studies were conducted among Dutch forensic psychiatric male patients to assess the psychometric properties …

AIM: This paper is a report of the development and testing of the psychometric properties of an instrument to measure the accuracy of nursing documentation in general hospitals. BACKGROUND: Little information is available about the accuracy of nursing documentation. None of the existing instruments that …

De psychometrische eigenschappen van meetinstrumenten die gebruikt worden door de afdeling fysiotherapie binnen het MUMC worden geïnventariseerd en verwerkt in de database van het Expertisecentrum Meetinstrumenten (ECMR).

The disease-specific-TACQOL-asthma questionnaire measures health-status and appraisal of health-status. The TACQOL-asthma evaluates the personal feelings about problems in the domains, 'complaints, situations, emotions, treatment and medication'. The TACQOL-asthma can be used alone or in combination …