BACKGROUND: Integrated care is essential for improving the management and health outcomes for people with Parkinson's disease (PD); reliable and objective measures of care integration are few. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to test the psychometric properties of the Rainbow Model of Integrated …

The aim of this study was to describe patients' experiences of, and preferences for, surgical wound care discharge education and how these experiences predicted their ability to self-manage their surgical wounds. A telephone survey of 270 surgical patients was conducted across two hospitals two weeks …

Als gevolg van het exclusief gebruikmaken van gebouwen als verblijfplaats, is de gewone dwergvleermuis Pipistrellus pipistrellus sterk verbonden met de mens, met name in stedelijke gebieden. Het is bekend dat de gewone dwergvleermuis zich graag ophoudt in spouwmuren en dat groen en water rondom de verblijfplaatsen …

Background: Lung fibroblasts are implicated in abnormal tissue repair in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The exact mechanisms are unknown and comprehensive analysis comparing COPD- and control fibroblasts is lacking. Aim: To gain insight in the role of lung fibroblasts in COPD pathology …

De Haagse economie is hersteld van de coronacrisis. De economie van het stadsgewest ‘s-Gravenhage is in 2021 met 3,5 procent gegroeid en liet het BBP per inwoner een groei zien van bijna 6 procent. Hiermee zet de groei van pre-corona door. Na een lange periode van matige economische groei en minder gecreëerde …

The biodiversity in the Netherlands is at an all-time low, in 2020 this was at a level of 15% especially while compared to Europe’s average of 40%. The biggest cause for this is intensive agriculture and lack of livable space for a wide variety of plants and animals. In the agricultural sector this is …

Introduction Quality improvement in prehospital emergency medical services (EMS) can only be achieved by high-quality research and critical appraisal of current practices. This study examines current opportunities and barriers in EMS research in the Netherlands.

The performance of a visible light communication (VLC) system based on power domain non-orthogonal multiple access (PD-NOMA) is experimentally evaluated in this paper. The simplicity of the adopted non-orthogonal scheme is provided by the fixed power allocation method at the transmitter and the single …

The energy management systems industry in the built environment is currently an important topic. Buildings use about 40% of the total global energy worldwide. Therefore, the energy management system’s sector is one of the most influential sectors to realize changes and transformation of energy use. New …