Tracheostomy is a life-saving procedure with complications often linked to suboptimal tracheostomy tube fit. Customised tubes could reduce these risks, but their development requires precise tracheal morphometric data. This study presents an automated workflow for extracting high-resolution tracheal …

Vanwege het mislopen van 900.000 euro omzet op een jaaromzet van 12.2 miljoen in 2020, wil Aethon Flex B.V. (hierna verder naar verwezen als ‘Aethon’) de doorlooptijd van het proces van aanname tot eerste werkdag verkorten met minimaal 10%. De huidige doorlooptijd is circa 80 dagen, dientengevolge Aethon …

Background and aims: Malnutrition screening is a first step in the nutrition care process for hospitalized patients, to identify those at risk of malnutrition and associated worse outcome, preceding further assessment and intervention. Frequently used malnutrition screening tools including the Malnutrition …

Jeugdwerkers werken vaker binnen interdisciplinaire buurtteams. Dat betekent een verschuiving van specialistische zorg naar een interdisciplinaire aanpak. Deze literatuurstudie onderzocht wat er bekend is over het bevorderen van interdisciplinaire samenwerking tussen jeugdwerkers.

PURPOSE: To document and analyse the decision to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment (LST) in a population of very old patients admitted to the ICU. METHODS: This prospective study included intensive care patients aged ≥ 80 years in 309 ICUs from 21 European countries with 30-day mortality …

Objective In the Netherlands, persons of Turkish, Moroccan and Surinamese descent form the largest groups of non-western immigrants. A high prevalence of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia has been described in immigrant populations in the United States of America and the United Kingdom. We …

Background Several footwear design characteristics are known to have detrimental effects on the foot. However, one characteristic that has received relatively little attention is the point where the sole flexes in the sagittal plane. Several footwear assessment forms assume that this should ideally …