De verpleegkundige overdracht is een belangrijk onderdeel voor informatieoverdracht door verpleegkundigen in het zorgproces, waarbij zorgverantwoordelijkheden worden overgedragen die essentieel zijn om de continuïteit van de geleverde zorg te bevorderen en te bewaken. Tevens waarborgt de verpleegkundige …

The primary cause of death in breast cancer cases is often metastasis, the spread of cancer cells systemically and the formation of secondary tumors in distant organs of the body. The invasion of breast tumor cells into the surrounding tissue is an initial step in the metastatic cascade. In addition …

De afdeling medische psychologie van het Wilhelmina Kinderziekenhuis (WKZ) wil weten hoe zij de Landelijke Neonatale Follow-up (LNF) van de extreem prematuur geboren kinderen rond de leeftijd van acht jaar kunnen optimaliseren. Aan de hand van kwantitatief, kwalitatief en literatuuronderzoek is de ontwikkeling …

De Hogeschool van Amsterdam en het Amsterdam UMC werken samen om zorgverleners handvatten te bieden die hen helpen bewustere en duurzamere keuzen te maken bij luchtwegzorghandelingen op de intensive care.

Background: Improving physical activity, especially in combination with optimizing protein intake, after surgery has a potential positive effect on recovery of physical functioning in patients after gastrointestinal and lung cancer surgery. The aim of this randomized controlled trial is to evaluate the …

Background: In the Netherlands, general practitioners (GPs) play a key role in provider-initiated HIV testing, but opportunities for timely diagnosis are regularly missed. We implemented an educational intervention to improve HIV testing by GPs from 2015 to 2020, and observed a 7% increase in testing …

The aim of this analysis was to compare ventilation management and outcomes in invasively ventilated patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) between the first and second wave in the Netherlands. This is a post hoc analysis of two nationwide observational …

Sepsis is a life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated immune response to infection. It is the number one cause of death in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), accounting for 6 million casualties every year. Unfortunately, all clinical trials in the last decade failed due to the highly complex …

Purpose The majority of older patients, scheduled for a cardiac procedure, do not adhere to international dietary intake and physical activity guidelines. The purpose of this study was to explore barriers and facilitators regarding dietary intake and physical activity behaviour change in older patients …

Treatment guidelines difer signifcantly, not only between Europe and North America but also among European coun tries [1–4]. Reasons for these diferences include antimi crobial resistance patterns, accessibility to and reimburse ment policies for medicines, and culturally and historically determined …