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In adult congenital heart disease patients with exercise-induced pulmonary arterial hypertension, treatment with bosentan lowers the mean pulmonary arterial pressure, which may result in improvement of the cardiopulmonary circulation,…
The aim of this study is to test, by means of a randomized controlled trial, the hypothesis that application of PAS therapy with low-frequency acoustic vibrations to demented patients in nursing homes will lead to a significant decrease of nocturnal…
It is hypothesized that the mindfulness based intervention will be associated with a reduction in psychological symptoms and increase in quality of life. In addition, it is hypothesized that patients scoring high on psychological mindedness at…
This study hypothesizes that an oxytocin inhalation will increase prosocial behavior and reduces social anxiety during social interaction specifically in patients with SAD in comparison to a clinical and healthy control group.
We hypothesized that avoidance of drainage after pancreaticoduodenectomy leads to less secondary interventions, less complications and a reduction in length of hospital stay.
The objective of this thesis is to get insight into the effects of internal audits on patient safety and on health care professional’s behavior in an academic hospital at ward level.
Adding prebiotics or ferments to infant formula may improve digestive comfort in infants. Therefore, the infant formula tested in this study, combining these ingredients, may contribute to improved digestive comfort. In this study it also has been…
Secondary cytoreductive surgery added to chemotherapy will increase progression free survival in selected patients with first platinum sensitive recurrence of ovarian cancer with a minimal negative effect on their health-related quality of life.
Hyperglycaemia alters the sustained hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction (HPV) and the hypoxic ventilatory response (HVR).
An ECT will lead to better adherence and illness and medication perceptions in young children with asthma.
The effectiveness of school-based ('Op Volle Kracht') and computerized ('SPARX') depression prevention programs will be tested in a Dutch sample of adolescent girls with elevated depressive symptoms. The programs will be tested…
Is a prevention program, based on principles of health behavior change, education about playing-related musculoskeletal disorders and postural training, more effective in preventing and/ or reducing disabilities from musculoskeletal complaints in…
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To compare the recurrence rate at 1 year following Narrow Band Imaging and TURB (Arm A) with White Light Trans Urethral Resection of Bladder cancer (TURB) (Arm B) in patients with non muscle invasive (NMIBC Ta/T1) bladder cancer.
We hypothesize that motivational and behavioral characteristics of eating behavior, in addition to genetic and environmental factors play a major role in the development of obesity. We aim to identify obesity subtypes based on these factors.
The objective is to identify a formulation of ModraCape001 that will release capecitabine in vivo over a time-period of about 18 hours. We hypothesize that prolonged exposure, without a high peak exposure to capecitabine, improves the benefit/risk…
The primary hypothesis is that tubal patency test by a HyFoSy procedure is less painful compared to tubal patency test by a hysterosalpingography.
NT-proBNP guidance during in-hospital treatment of acutely decompensated heart failure (to strive for >30% reduction) reduces readmissions and mortality and increases the number of days alive out of hospital in the first 180 days.
Peer assessment, as a educational guideline implementation strategy, results in more improvement of evidence based reasoning than case based discussion.
The aim of the study is to compare the efficacy of per-oral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) to the efficacy of pneumodilation as the initial treatment of symptomatic idiopathic achalasia. It is hypothesized that POEM has a higher long-term efficacy than…