Perioperative Health and Care in Orthopedical Surgery

Background Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) can reduce mortality and improve physical functioning in older patients, but current programs do not support the needs of older patients with comorbidities or frailty, for example due to transport problems and physical limitations. Home-exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation …

Abstract: Existing frailty models have enhanced research and practice; however, none of the models accounts for the perspective of older adults upon defining and operationalizing frailty. We aim to propose a mixed conceptual model that builds on the integral model while accounting for older adults’ perceptions …

Background: Although diagnosing and treating malnutrition, sarcopenia and underweight are recommended to be embedded and sustained within nutritional care, it is unknown if that is facilitated in geriatric rehabilitation. This study determined the proportion of geriatric rehabilitation inpatients with …

Workshop gegeven over activeren van inactieve ouderenParticipatie in EU-project Base

In het kader van samenwering tussen huisartsen en medisch specialisten van de regio Smallingerland is er een congres georganiseerd met het thema vallen bij ouderen

Background: Advanced statistical modeling techniques may help predict health outcomes. However, it is not the case that these modeling techniques always outperform traditional techniques such as regression techniques. In this study, external validation was carried out for five modeling strategies for …

Uitgenodigd voor een presentatie bij de Santeon Ziekenhuizen bijeenkomst Heupartrose in het Santeon Hoofdgebouw in Utrecht.