Recent marketing literature suggests that brand orientation is an alternative concept for the public health because it is believed to address the shortcomings of market orientation. Brand orientation is specifically of interest to the sector of healthcare, due to the complex nature of the sector. The …

Background: To support effective self-management after kidney transplantation, a holistic nurse-led self-management support intervention was developed using the Intervention Mapping approach. The primary aim was to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability and fidelity of the intervention for kidney transplant …

Op 11 Maart bezocht Judith Tielen, 2e kamerlid (VVD) Entrance en het Centre of Expertise Energy. Haar werd getoond wat hier gedaan wordt en naar welke doelstellingen gestreefd wordt, op gebied van zowel onderwijs als onderzoek.

Background: Optimal self-management in kidney transplant recipients is essential for patient and graft survival, reducing comorbidity and health care costs while improving the quality of life. However, there are few effective interventions aimed at providing self-management support after kidney transplantation. Objective: …

Most people in The Netherlands have access to high quality palliative care—multidisciplinary total care aimed at patients’ quality of life when patients have limited life expectancies. All nurses and generalist physicians receive at least basic palliative care training. Nursing home staff is also well …

Fietsen wordt regelmatig opgenomen in revalidatieprogram-ma’s. Geheel zonder risico is dit advies echter niet. Naast de bekende trauma’s komen binnen het wielrennen ook diverse overbelastingsblessures voor. Ter preventie van die blessures kom je met enkele praktische maatregelen, zoals de afstelling …

he reorientation of the public sector along market lines has led to the paradigm of New Public Management (NPM): the assumption that the public sector can be improved by management principles and techniques traditionally associated with the private sector. However, market orientation has also become …

Objective: Kidney transplant recipients face many self-management challenges. We aimed to identify profiles of attitudes towards self-management support (SMS) shortly after kidney transplantation. Methods: Profiles were generated using Q-methodology: In face-to-face interviews participants rankordered opinion …

Het doel van dit onderzoek is om het verband tussen de verworven klanken en spraakmotoriek en tussen verworven klanken en spraakverstaanbaarheid met DS in kaart te brengen. In een multiple case study design zijn vijf kinderen met DS met een leeftijd tussen de 6;6 eb 11;7 jaar onderzocht. Er werd gebruik …

In our center we encounter serious problems with a number young adult (18- 25yrs) renal transplant recipients that are non-compliant to the medication regime. This could well be one of the reasons for the significantly worse unadjusted 10 years kidney graft survival in this patient group compared to …