Background: Nutrition and nutritional care are essential for optimal outcomes, and, therefore of importance for patients with chronic limb threatening ischemia (CLTI) given their high risk of complications. However, insight is lacking in how healthcare professionals directly involved in the care of patients …

Background: To avoid overexertion in critically ill patients, information on the physical demand, i.e., metabolic load, of daily care and active exercises is warranted. Objective: The objective of this study was toassess the metabolic load during morning care activities and active bed exercises in mechanically …

Background: Due to the globally increasing demand for care, innovation is important to maintain quality, safety, effectiveness, patient sensitivity, and outcome orientation. Health care technologies could be a solution to innovate, maintain, or improve the quality of care and simultaneously decrease …

Optimization of aviation maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) operations has been of high interest in recent years for both the knowledge institutions and the industrial community as a total of approximately $70 billion has been spent on MRO activities in 2018 which represents around 10% of an airline’s …

Background: Although diagnosing and treating malnutrition, sarcopenia and underweight are recommended to be embedded and sustained within nutritional care, it is unknown if that is facilitated in geriatric rehabilitation. This study determined the proportion of geriatric rehabilitation inpatients with …

Background: A hospital group is an organizational integration strategy that has recently been widely implemented in Chinese urban health systems to promote integrated care. This study aims to evaluate the effect of hospital group on integrated care from the perspectives of both patients and care professionals. …

De meeste mensen kennen de robotstofzuiger wel. Dit apparaat lijkt een ideale oplossing bij de hulp in het huishouden. Maar welke uitdagingen brengt een robotstofzuiger met zich mee als deze door thuiszorgorganisaties wordt gebruikt in de ondersteuning die zij bij cliënten leveren? Iedereen weet dat …

This paper shows the research and development that went into making a VR application that takes the player through the morning routine of someone with depression. It showcases the struggles and thoughts that come with the illness and how it affects a person’s life. 

The closing of schools and sports clubs during theCOVID-19 lockdown raised questions about thepossible impact on children’s motor skilldevelopment. Therefore we compared motorcompetence development over a one-year periodamong four different cohorts of primary schoolchildren. A total of 992 children from …

Bij kinderen met ASS speelt opvoeding een belangrijke rol. Het is van belang om een kind positief te benaderen. Kinderen met ASS krijgen regelmatig te horen wat ze niet kunnen. Dit heeft als gevolg dat ze een negatief zelfbeeld kunnen krijgen, waardoor er weerstand kan ontstaan. Op latere leeftijd kan …