Aims: To investigate the impact of consecutive perioperative care transitions on in-hospital recovery of patients who had primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA) over an 11-year period. Methods: This observational cohort study used electronic health record data from all patients undergoing preoperative …

Het onderzoek vergelijkt consumentvoorkeuren en cidertradities in Normandië/Bretagne, Frankrijk, en Nova Scotia, Canada. Uit een uitgebreide enquête bleek dat Fransen traditioneelere cider smaken prefereren, terwijl Canadezen meer openstaan voor innovatieve smaken. Leeftijd beïnvloedde Franse voorkeuren, …

To model individuals' experience of urban spaces, this study integrates knowledge from environmental psychology and artificial intelligence to propose a framework for individuals' perceptions and emotion by incorporating individual characteristics and cognitive appraisal together with environment attributes …

The process of taking over a business in the agricultural sector is a team process in which, in addition to the transferor and transferee, the partner(s) and non-acquiring family and advisors also play an important role. It is a multi-year process in which decisions have to be made on complex issues. …

Repeating an experiment following the exact same procedures and using the exact same data and tooling should always give the same results. This is referred to as replicability, a key principle within the scientific research community. To support replicability in a clinical context, recording and reporting …

The Medical Device Regulation (MDR) came into effect in May 2021. Compared to its predecessor (the Medical Device Directive), the scope and definition of software has been expanded, and medical software often falls into a higher risk classification. For developers of health technology, healthcare organisations, …

In this article, we show how elderly clients in Dutch dietary consultations adjust dietitians’ history taking questions that suggest a cause for weight loss. Using conversation analysis and discursive psychology, we analyzed the history taking phase of recorded primary care conversations of 7 dietitians …

Ascertaining the contribution of research is complex; this is not a conclusion but a starting point for the preliminary thoughts in this inaugural lecture. The guiding question is: where does this complexity lie? The dominant answer that has taken root in many practices flattens this complexity into …

Contribution to the 13th edition of the Supporting Health by Technology Conference taking place in Groningen on Thursday, 30th and Friday, 31st of May 2024. Background Technological innovations are often viewed as a remedy for the challenges confronting the healthcare sector, such as demographic shifts …