Purpose: The Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA), including the PG-SGA Short Form (SF, aka ‘abridged’), was originally developed in the mid 1990’s as a scored, patient self-report, paperbased instrument and has been widely validated. The PG-SGA (SF) has been used for screening, assessment …

Rationale: The Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA) is a validated instrument to assess malnutrition and its risk factors in clinical populations. Its patient component, PG-SGA Short Form (SF), can be used as screening instrument. In this cross-sectional study we aimed to assess agreement …

Eén van de eerste uitdagingen voor een te vroeg geboren baby is het leren drinken uit fles of borst. Voor de meeste op tijd geboren kinderen levert dit geen problemen op, maar te vroeg geboren baby’s hebben meer moeite met het coördineren van het zuigen, slikken en ademen tijdens het drinken. Er zijn …

BACKGROUND: Exercise capacity, muscle function, and physical activity levels remain reduced in recipients of lung transplantation. Factors associated with this deficiency in functional exercise capacity have not been studied longitudinally. OBJECTIVE: The study aims were to analyze the longitudinal change …

Background: Activity trackers can potentially stimulate users to increase their physical activity behavior. The aim of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of ten consumer activity trackers for measuring step count in both laboratory and free-living conditions. Method: Healthy adult …

Objectives: Children have a greater risk from radiation, per unit dose, due to increased radiosensitivity and longer life expectancies. It is of paramount importance to reduce the radiation dose received by children. This research concerns chest CT examinations on paediatric patients. The purpose of …

Samenwerking onderwijs - GGZ: gaat dat wel samen? Workshop in het kader van het symposium ‘Participatie door Educatie', Groningen 11 november 2014.

Mounting evidence supports the use of face-to-face pain neuroscience education for the treatment of chronic pain patients. This study aimed at examining whether written education about pain neuroscience improves illness perceptions, catastrophizing, and health status in patients with fibromyalgia. A …

In Zukunft lebenPresentatie gegeven door Peter Boonstra op de Fachhochschule Joanneum in Graz, Oostenrijk op hun symposium In Zukunft Leben d.d. 29-10-2014. Opbouw: demografische ontwikkelingen, ontwikkelingen in de gezondheidszorg en definitie van gezondheid, organisaties in Noord-Nederland, samenwerkingsverbanden, …

Active and Healthy Ageing in EU and the regional approach in the Northern Netherlands. In the Northern Netherlands a regional Healthy Ageing innovation network has been developed in which many partners in research and education, health and welfare, business, and regional authorities have been collaborating …