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Actively providing patients with subdivided and interactive information after discharge from the hospital leads to increased self management, satisfaction and sense of involvement.
actively offering women subdivided, categorised and interactive educational content throughout their IVF treatment enables them to get a get a grip on the different stages of their treatment: from intake to medicine usage and side effects, to oocyte…
non-inferiority
College years are considered to be a peak period for the first onset of common mental disorders. Recent studies have shown that 12 to 50% of university students experience one or multiple psychological symptoms. Mental health is associated with…
Risk stratifying by ambulance nurses using the HEART score in patients with suspected non-STEMI is feasible and safe.
A) Recruits in the intervention group show more improvement over time on mean endurance post intervention and halfway through the AMOL, than recruits in the control group. B) The chance of withdrawal from training for overuse injuries of recruits in…
Ankle bracing has shown to be effective for the prevention of ankle injuries in athletes. However, the working mechanism of this preventive effect remains unclear. A contributing preventive factor of ankle braces mentioned in literature is enhanced…
Nowadays, the hysteroscopic morcellator (HM) is a widely used technique for removal of intrauterine polyps. Various mechanical, motor-driven tissue removal systems are used in clinical setting (Truclear; Medtronic, Minneapolis Minnesota, MyoSure;…
The DLBP is superior compared to the DHS in terms of revision surgery, union rate, avascular necrosis, implant related failure, as well as functional outcome.
Patients with obesity face many health issues such as obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Prevalence of OSA may be as high as 70% in high-risk populations such as morbidly obese patients undergoing bariatric surgery. Although bariatric surgery itself has…
We hypothesize that MTX and LEF combination therapy is superior to MTX monotherapy in patients with psoriatic arthritis
The hypothesis is that the 'Shine!' intervention will result in parents having better parenting skills and a higher self-efficacy to twice daily brush their children’s teeth, resulting in better oral hygiene and less dental caries…
The hypothesis states that the time tom complete an emergency airway with Cricath device is significant faster than with Quicktrach device, which will be studied on porcine cadaver models. In the second outcome, the hypothesis states that there is…
Pre-hospital triage in patients with low risk of NSTE-ACS will reveal a large saving in health care resources in favor of the pre-hospital rule strategy with additional GP management. At 12 months the strategy will corroborate with a very low event…
Adolescence represents a crucial stage in the maturation of executive functioning (e.g. working memory and inhibition) and mental health (i.e. behavioral and emotional functioning, and self-concept), which both are important predictors of academic…
Inhaled levodopa provides more rapid symptom relief than orally administered levodopa
We hypothesize that the Think Cool Act Cool emotion regulation training is effective in improving emotion regulation skills and decreasing externalizing behavior problems, compared to care-as-usual. We also hypothesize that the training has a small…
We expect that the intervention group, in which employees diagnosed with cancer inform their employer about an online toolbox, return to work more often, provided with a higher degree of successfulness, compared with the control group, in which…
Ischemia driven (FFR) complete percutaneous revascularisation of all significant stenosis in the non-culprit lesion performed within the index PCI procedure will improve clinical outcomes compared to the usual care, guided by discretion of the…
Atherosclerosis is characterized by a persistent inflammation of the arterial wall. Monocyte-derived macrophages are the most abundant immune cells in atherosclerotic plaques. It has recently been shown that not only immune cells of the adaptive…