Background. To improve nutritional care for community-dwelling older adults before, during, and after hospitalization, factors influencing nurses’ current behavior should be targeted. The aim of this study was to obtain expert consensus on which factors influencing the behavior of hospital and home care …

Background Traumatic injuries are of global health concern and significant contributors to Emergency Department (ED) and hospital workload. Aim To compare patterns of traumatic injuries among patient presentations to the ED across different modes of arrival (ambulance, police, or private transport) …

Background: Although the timely involvement of trauma surgeons is widely accepted as standard care in a trauma center, there is an ongoing debate regarding the value of an on-site attending trauma surgeon compared to an on-call trauma surgeon. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of introducing …

Background: Non-technical errors, such as insufficient communication or leadership, are a major cause of medical failures during trauma resuscitation. Research on staffing variation among trauma teams on teamwork is still in their infancy. In this study, the extent of variation in trauma team staffing …

Introduction: A trauma resuscitation is dynamic and complex process in which failures could lead to serious adverse events. In several trauma centers, evaluation of trauma resuscitation is part of a hospital's quality assessment program. While video analysis is commonly used, some hospitals use live …

Oudere patiënten slikken, als ze meerdere chronische ziekten hebben, vaak heel wat pillen op een dag. Maar wie houdt bij patiënten die thuis wonen het overzicht over al die verschillende medicijnen? Van de bijwerkingen? En of die pillen wel doen wat ze moeten doen? Verpleegkundige Nienke Dijkstra (33) …