BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Malnutrition and sarcopenia are common nutrition (-related) disorders in patients with COPD and are associated with negative health outcomes and mortality. This study aims to correlate ultrasound measured rectus femoris size with fat-free mass and muscle function in patients with …

Common methods to detect phlebitis may not be sufficient for patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). The goal of this study was to investigate the feasibility of infrared (IR) thermography to objectively detect phlebitis in adult ICU patients. We included a total of 128 adult ICU-patients in a pilot …

Het doel van het onderzoek was te bepalen of differentieel leren bruikbaar is voor in de gymles op het basisonderwijs. Hiervoor werden het oefen- en leereffect op het onderdeel radslag naar aanleiding van de differentiële-en de traditionele leermethode met elkaar vergeleken. Vervolgens werd bepaald of …

Background & aims Plasma citrulline concentration is considered to be a marker for enterocyte metabolic mass and to reflect its reduction as may occur during intestinal dysfunction. Strenuous exercise can act as a stressor to induce small intestinal injury. Our previous studies suggest that this comprises …

Background: Emergency department utilization has increased tremendously over the past years, which is accompanied by an increased necessity for emergency medicine research to support clinical practice. Important sources of evidence are systematic reviews (SRs) and meta-analyses (MAs), but these can only …

Introduction: Patients with kinesiophobia (fear of movement) avoid physical activity. Avoidance of physical activity is linked to adverse cardiac events and thus needs to be targeted. However, there is no contemporary measurement tool to assess kinesiophobia in cardiac patients. Therefore data on prevalence …

Aanleiding: Schouderpijn is de derde meest voorkomende musculoskeletale klacht in Nederland. Klachten aan de schouder komen veel voor en kunnen bovendien lang aanhouden, de jaarlijkse prevalentie voor schouderpijn in de Nederlandse bevolking is 31%. Voornamelijk bij bovenhandse sporters is deze klacht …

Aanleiding ‘’Aantal gebroken heupen bij ouderen in vijf jaar met 12 procent gestegen’’, zo luidt de titel van een recent nieuwsartikel van nu.nl. Als gevolg van de vergrijzing kwamen 102 duizend 65-plussers in 2017 op de spoedeisende hulp na een valincident. Het in een sociaal isolement raken door angst …

Decreased appetite is one of the main risk factors of malnutrition. Little is known on how appetite changes during hospitalization and after discharge and how it relates with sarcopenia-related outcomes. We analyzed data of the Hospital-ADL study, a multicenter prospective cohort study that followed …

PURPOSE: It is assumed that case-based questions require higher order cognitive processing, whereas questions that are not case-based require lower order cognitive processing. In this study, we investigated to what extent case-based questions and questions that are not case-based, relate to Bloom's taxonomy. …