BACKGROUND: Differentiating mild cognitive impairment (MCI) from dementia is important, as treatment options differ. There are few short (<5 min) but accurate screening tools that discriminate between MCI, normal cognition (NC) and dementia, in the Dutch language. The Quick Mild Cognitive Impairment …

This posterpresentation demonstrates the preliminary results of a validation study concering the Dutch version of the Quick Mild Cognitive Impairment screen (Qmci).

Patients scheduled for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan sometimes require screening for ferromagnetic Intra Orbital Foreign Bodies (IOFBs). To assess this, they are required to fill out a screening protocol questionnaire before their scan. If it is established that a patient is at high risk, radiographic …

This review aims to identify strategies to optimise radiography practice using digital technologies, for full spine studies on paediatrics focusing particularly on methods used to diagnose and measure severity of spinal curvatures. The literature search was performed on different databases (PubMed, Google …

Purpose: The Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA), including the PG-SGA Short Form (SF, aka ‘abridged’), was originally developed in the mid 1990’s as a scored, patient self-report, paperbased instrument and has been widely validated. The PG-SGA (SF) has been used for screening, assessment …

Aanleiding: Het hoge landelijke prevalentiecijfer van ondervoeding bij ouderen in Nederlandse zorginstellingen en een klein onderzoek in woon-zorg voorziening ‘De Morgenster’ is aanleiding geweest om de zorg rondom ondervoeding nader te onderzoeken. Probleemstelling: Bij 21% van de ouderen in verzorgingshuizen …

Background: The awareness is growing that central sensitization is of prime importance for the assessment and management of chronic pain, but its classification is challenging clinically since no gold standard method of assessment exists. Objectives: Designing the first set of classification criteria …

In veel ouderenzorginstellingen wordt al gebruik gemaakt van multimediatoepassingen voor mensen met dementie, zoals De Verhalentafel en de BrainTrainerPlus. De drie grootste zorgorganisaties in Rotterdam (Aafje, Laurens en Humanitas) hebben een toenemende behoefte aan individuele activiteiten en zagen …

Objective: Child under nutrition is still a big health problem in South Africa. A descriptive study will be done to assess the prevalence of under nutrition of the children, age 7-13 years, at Maxonia primary school in Grabouw, South Africa. The research is done at the Maxonia primary school in the Grabouw …

Connected through a screen, two classes that are an ocean apart take the same course and do the same assignments. Our course “ The Global Village” is a globally networked learning environment (Starke-Meyerring and Wilson, 2008) where students from two different universities work and learn together using …