Onder invloed van maatschappelijke en politieke bewegingen blijven ook kwetsbare ouderen langer in hun eigen huis wonen. Er groeit een belangrijke maatschappelijke uitdaging om ervoor te zorgen dat er achter de vele voordeuren waar kwetsbare thuiswonende ouderen wonen voldoende zorg is. Een opgave die …

The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of the aims and results of the JPIAMR (Joint Programming Initiative on AntiMicrobial Resistance) project “Appropriate use of antibiotics: the role of CAM treatment strategies”. An additional aim is to raise some key questions and challenges with respect …

Objectives: Art therapy (AT) as a treatment option for anxiety is regularly employed in clinical practice, but scientific evidence for its effectiveness is lacking, since this intervention has hardly been studied. The aim was to study the effectiveness of AT on anxiety in adult women. The specific type …

Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) has a poor prognosis in advanced stages. High-dose chemotherapy (HDC) was pursued in the 1990s but was not found to improve survival of patients with EOC in larger studies. Many patients with cancer use Viscum album extracts (VAE). Also called European mistletoe, Viscum …

The aim of this narrative review was to explore the potential contributions of CAM to reduce antibiotic use. Methods. We searched PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews with a specific, limited set of search terms and collected input from a group of expert CAM researchers to answer …

De wijk- en vraaggerichte wijze van werken binnen de gemeente Den Haag probeert zoveel mogelijk autonomie bij professionals te leggen en de regels in het werk minder centraal te stellen. Maar regels en procedures garanderen ook gelijkheid van behandeling, wetmatigheid en voorspelbaarheid. Regels zijn …

De wijk- en vraaggerichte manier van werken van de gemeente Den Haag geeft professionals aan de ene kant meer autonomie, maar kan ook leiden tot onzekerheid voor professionals. Op basis van dit onderzoek definiëren wij onzekerheid als: de ervaring van moeilijke situaties op het werk, als gevolg van een …

In children developmental disorders expresses themselves by a variable presentation of symptoms and frequent manifestation of comorbidity of a complex nature. In addition to the classification of a disorder, individualising diagnostics is a means to realize assessment and treatment that are fine-tuned …

Background Anxiety disorders are one of the most diagnosed mental health disorders. Common treatment consists of cognitive behavioral therapy and pharmacotherapy. In clinical practice, also art therapy is additionally provided to patients with anxiety (disorders), among others because treatment as usual …

Rationale: Metastatic pancreatic cancer has a dismal prognosis. Many patients seek integrative care as an add-on to their conventional cancer treatment. Viscum album extracts (VAE)—widely used as an adjunct to cancer treatment—have cytotoxic, apoptogenic, and immune stimulatory properties. A statistically …