Inleiding: gedurende het verouderingsproces verandert de lichaamssamenstelling. Afname in spiermassa en spierkracht leiden tot verminderd fysiek functioneren. Meetmethoden als DEXA, CT, MRI en BIA zijn echter in de dagelijkse praktijk niet altijd bruikbaar om deze veranderingen waar te nemen. Daarentegen …

Background: Frailty is considered highly prevalent in older age. Frailty causes a high risk of falls, disability, hospitalization, and mortality. This eventually might be the turning-point for older patients to shift from independent living to assisted living. Poor nutritional status might be an important …

Door vergrijzing wordt de groep kwetsbare ouderen steeds groter. Binnen de groep is daarnaast sprake van comorbiditeit, waardoor het aantal valincidenten toeneemt. De gevolgen van een val kunnen lichamelijke en psychosociale klachten veroorzaken. Hierdoor kunnen ouderen minder lang zelfstandig thuis …

Purpose: To investigate the prevalence of multidimensional frailty in older people with hypertension and to examine a possible relationship of general obesity and abdominal obesity to frailty in older people with hypertension. Patients and Methods: A sample of 995 community-dwelling older people with …

Purpose In this systematic literature review, the effects of the application of a checklist during in hospital resuscitation of trauma patients on adherence to the ATLS guidelines, trauma team performance, and patient-related outcomes were integrated. Methods A systematic review was performed following …

Background & aims: A low muscle mass before start of treatment and loss of muscle mass during chemotherapy is related to adverse outcomes in patients with cancer. In this randomized controlled trial, the effect of nutritional counseling on change in muscle mass and treatment outcome in patients with …

Background: Over the last decade, different screening tools for malnutrition have been developed. Within these tools, a distinction can be made between tools that assess nutritional risk and tools that assess protein energy malnutrition. Insights in differences in characteristics of participants at risk …

Undernutrition is highly prevalent among community-dwelling older adults. Early identification of nutrition risk is important to prevent or treat undernutrition. This study describes the prevalence rates of nutrition risk in community-dwelling older adults (aged >= 65) using the same validated tool across …

Background: Home care professionals regularly observe drug-related problems during home care provision. Problems related to the process of the medication therapy could involve discrepancies in medication prescriptions between the hospital discharge letter and the medication administration record lists …