What are evidence-based interventions for health professionals in critical en emergency care contributing to sustainable healthcare and green attitude?

BACKGROUND: Integrated care is essential for improving the management and health outcomes for people with Parkinson's disease (PD); reliable and objective measures of care integration are few. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to test the psychometric properties of the Rainbow Model of Integrated …

Werkbezoek aan Noord-Nederland over leefstijl en gezondheidOp maandag 6 maart bracht de minister van VWS, Ernst Kuipers, een werkbezoek aan Noord-Nederland. Hij bezocht UMCG en Nij Smellinghe. De onderwerpen van het werkbezoek zijn gelinkt aan leefstijl en gezondheid. In Drachten ging LifeLines, de grootste …

Smoking among people with severe mental illness (SMI) is highly prevalent and strongly associated with poor physical health. Currently, evidence-based smoking cessation interventions are scarce and need to be integrated into current mental health care treatment guidelines and clinical practice. Therefore, …

Shared Decision Making (SDM) is niet meer weg te denken uit de gezondheidszorg. Shared Decision Making wordt gedefinieerd als samen beslissen over de zorg en is een kernproces in persoonsgerichte zorg. Het doel van Shared Decision Making is beter bij de patient passende zorg, gevoed door de expertise …

In practice, every day obstetric emergency care departments in hospitals receive several telephone calls from pregnant women. During these calls, midwives, nurses or doctor’s assistants use their obstetric knowledge and experience to determine the severity of the complaints and the necessity and urgency …

We applaud many of the sentiments put forward by Cohen et al in their critique of language and logic in pain medicine. 8 Pleas to avoid conflation between nociception and pain are not new - “The mislabelling of nociceptors as pain fibres was not an elegant simplification but a most unfortunate trivialisation …

Background: Nutritional care for older adults provided by hospital and home care nurses and nursing assistants is suboptimal. This is due to several factors including professionals' lack of knowledge and low prioritisation. Affecting these factors may promote nurses' and nursing assistants' behavioral …

Background: Team-based palliative care interventions have shown positive results for patients at the end of life in both hospital and community settings. However, evidence on the effectiveness of transmural, that is, spanning hospital and home, team-based palliative care collaborations is limited. Aim: …

Malnutrition is a serious and widespread health problem in community-dwelling older adults who receive care in hospital and at home. Hospital and home care nurses and nursing assistants have a key role in the delivery of high-quality multidisciplinary nutritional care. Nursing nutritional care in current …