Objective: To evaluate the preliminary effectiveness of a goal-directed movement intervention using a movement sensor on physical activity of hospitalized patients. Design: Prospective, pre-post study. Setting: A university medical center. Participants: Patients admitted to the pulmonology and nephrology/gastro-enterology …

Inleiding: Het prikkelbaredarmsyndroom (PDS) komt in de Nederlandse bevolking geregeld voor en kan beschreven worden als een functionele gastro-intestinale aandoening. De prevalentie van PDS is bij vrouwen 15 tot 20% en bij mannen 5 tot 20%. Patiënten die lijden aan PDS hebben gastro-intestinale klachten …

Disability in children diagnosed with hypermobility syndrome (HMS) and Ehlers-Danlos (hypermobility type: EDS-HT) can vary from mild to very severe. This disability can be of temporary nature but for some may persist and become chronic, eventually leading to disablement. Historically it is believed that …

Background & aims: High protein delivery during early critical illness is associated with lower mortality, while energy overfeeding is associated with higher mortality. Protein-to-energy ratios of traditional enteral formulae are sometimes too low to reach protein targets without energy overfeeding. …

Inleiding: Sepsis is een levensbedreigende aandoening die wordt veroorzaakt doordat het gehele lichaam reageert op aanwezigheid van een infectie (Walters, 2017). Jaarlijks worden naar schatting 13.000 patiënten in het ziekenhuis opgenomen met een ernstige sepsis, waarvan 3.500 patiënten overlijden …

BACKGROUND: Prophylaxis for gastrointestinal stress ulceration is frequently given to patients in the intensive care unit (ICU), but its risks and benefits are unclear. METHODS: In this European, multicenter, parallel-group, blinded trial, we randomly assigned adults who had been admitted to the ICU …

We present a multilingual, open source system for cancer forum thread analysis, equipped with a biomedical entity tagger and a module for textual summarization. This system allows users to investi- gate textual co-occurrences of biomedical entities in forum posts, and to browse through summaries of long …

Background To describe the prevalence of multimorbidity and to study the association between acute and chronic diseases in acutely hospitalized older patients Methods Prospective cohort study conducted between 2006 and 2008 in three teaching hospitals in the Netherlands. 639 patients aged 65 years and …

Achtergrond In Nederland bedroeg de incidentie van prostaatkanker in 2015 circa 10.500 mannen. Naar verwachting zal de incidentie blijven stijgen. Een van de behandelmethoden is interstitiële brachytherapie. Deze behandeling wordt voornamelijk toegepast bij patiënten met low risk en intermediate risk …

Abstract gepubliseerd in Elsevier: For patients with intermediate- and high risk prostate cancer, treated with high dose radiotherapy, the CTV generally involves the prostate and (part of) the seminal vesicles (SV) [1,2]. Fiducial markers locate the prostate reliably during radiotherapy [3]. However …