Perioperative Health and Care in Orthopedical Surgery

Background: It is important that healthcare professionals recognise cognitive dysfunction in hospitalised older patients in order to address associated care needs, such as enhanced involvement of relatives and extra cognitive and functional support. However, studies analysing medical records suggest …

Introduction Treatments such as eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing and (narrative) exposure therapies are commonly used in psychological trauma. In everyday practice, art therapy is also often used, although rigorous research on its efficacy is lacking. Patients seem to benefit from the indirect, …

INTRODUCTION: There is a growing interest in the involvement of family members of older patients with cancer in decision-making processes. The aim of this study is to identify how and to what extent family members, together with patients and physicians, are involved in triadic decision-making processes …

Posttraumatic nightmares (PTN) are a frequent symptom after a traumatic event and often play part in the psychopathology of patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Imagery rehearsal therapy (IRT) currently offers the best evidence for an effective treatment to reduce PTNs, although high …

Het Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen (UMCG) is een van de grootste ziekenhuizen van Nederland en tevens de grootste werkgever in Noord-Nederland. Binnen het UMCG houdt men zich bezig met zorg, onderzoek, opleiding en onderwijs, met als gemeenschappelijke doelstelling: bouwen aan de toekomst van …

Aims: In-hospital prescribing errors may result in patient harm, such as prolonged hospitalisation and hospital (re)admission, and may be an emotional burden for the prescribers and healthcare professionals involved. Despite efforts, in-hospital prescribing errors and related harm still occur, necessitating …

Objective: To construct the underlying value structure of shared decision making (SDM) models. Method: We included previously identified SDM models (n = 40) and 15 additional ones. Using a thematic analysis, we coded the data using Schwartz’s value theory to define values in SDM and to investigate value …

In 2018 werd het kwaliteitskader ambulancezorg ontwikkeld, met daarin onder andere het signaal “mobiel zorgconsult en opnieuw ambulancezorg binnen 24 tot 72 uur”. Ambulancezorg Nederland (AZN) schrijft dat er nog weinig inzicht is in de aard van de vervolgritten. Dit onderzoek beoogt inzicht te verschaffen …

Inleiding: De toegankelijkheid, kwaliteit en betaalbaarheid van de huisartsenzorg staan onder druk. Digitale zorgtoepassingen zoals www.moetiknaardedokter.nl (MINDD) worden gezien als mogelijke oplossingen. Dit onderzoek had als doel ervaringen van patiënten in een reguliere huisartsenpraktijk met het …