BACKGROUND: Healthcare professionals in the hospital setting frequently assume primary caregiving responsibilities, which often leads family members to perceive this as standard practice during hospitalization. This dynamic may create a gap between actual and desired levels of family involvement. The …

Quality improvements (QIs) in dynamic and complex health care contexts require resilience and take variability into account in quality improvement. The Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM) helps us understand resilience and gain insight into (un)desirable variability in the complex system of daily …

Machine learning models use high dimensional feature spaces to map their inputs to the corresponding class labels. However, these features often do not have a one-to-one correspondence with physical concepts understandable by humans, which hinders the ability to provide a meaningful explanation for the …

Background: Social frailty has been increasingly prevalent due to the aging populations. This concept is a rela tively new topic in the gerontology. Older adults experiencing social isolation because of social frailty remain in a state of loneliness or depression. Many misconceptions exist regarding …

BACKGROUND: Physical activity is essential in burn care to counteract the effects of severe burns and inactivity during hospitalization. However, detailed knowledge of performed physical activities is lacking. This study evaluated the feasibility of a dual accelerometer-based method to assess type, frequency, …

The Dutch Institute for Sound & Vision in Hilversum invited people from the munic- ipality, finance, NGOs, academic, and arts & culture to imagine future ways to deal with rising sea levels in Dutch cities. Stills from films, documentaries and news reports from the institute’s archive were used in combination …

Objective To investigate whether duration of knee symptoms influenced the magnitude of the effect of exercise therapy compared to non-exercise control interventions on pain and physical function in people with knee osteoarthritis (OA). Method We undertook an individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis …

Objective The Plants for Joints (PFJ) intervention significantly improved pain, stiffness, and physical function, and metabolic outcomes, in people with metabolic syndrome-associated osteoarthritis (MSOA). This secondary analysis investigated its effects on body composition. Method In the randomized …

Paper-presentation EAPRIL Conference, November 26 - 28, Hasselt.