Testing on bacterial vaginosis in a subfertile population and time to pregnancy: a prospective cohort study
ConclusionThis study indicates that BV may have a potential negative impact on time to live birth pregnancy in subfertile persons with an indication for fertility treatment. This study did not find an association between BV and time to live birth pregnancy in a general group of subfertile couples or in unexplained subfertility. More research should be done in persons with unexplained subfertility and if treatment improves time to pregnancy. (Source: Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics)
Source: Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics - May 16, 2024 Category: OBGYN Source Type: research
Assessing quality of hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery: nationwide benchmarking
CONCLUSION: Current event rates and minimum volume requirements per hospital are too low to detect any meaningful between hospital differences in mortality rate and FTR. Major morbidity rate and TO are better candidates to use for benchmarking.PMID:38747683 | DOI:10.1093/bjs/znae119 (Source: The British Journal of Surgery)
Source: The British Journal of Surgery - May 15, 2024 Category: Surgery Authors: Michelle R de Graaff Tessa E Hendriks Michel Wouters Mark Nielen Ignace de Hingh Bas Groot Koerkamp Hjalmar C van Santvoort Olivier R Busch Marcel den Dulk Joost M Klaase Erik van Zwet Bert A Bonsing Dirk J Gr ünhagen Marc G Besselink Niels F M Kok Source Type: research
Enabling nurses' engagement in the design of healthcare technology - Core competencies and requirements: A qualitative study
CONCLUSION: Nurses experience their involvement in the design process as essential, distinctive, and meaningful but experience few possibilities to combine this work with their current workload, flows, routines, and requirements. To participate in the design of health care technologies nurses need motivation and specific competencies. Organizations should facilitate time for nurses to acquire the required competencies and to be intentionally involved in technology design and development activities.PMID:38746818 | PMC:PMC11080470 | DOI:10.1016/j.ijnsa.2023.100170 (Source: Adv Data)
Source: Adv Data - May 15, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Thijs van Houwelingen Alexandra C M Meeuse Helianthe S M Kort Source Type: research
COVID-19 measures implemented for nursing home staff and their perspectives on the importance of the measures: A qualitative study
CONCLUSIONS: We showed that although nursing home staff were not always involved in decision-making during the first COVID-19 wave, there was overlap between the measures implemented by the organizations and measures considered important by staff. We suggest that organizations should be encouraged to explore ways of promoting timely involvement of staff in decision-making; for example, through monitoring staff needs and well-being and giving staff more autonomy to deviate from standard measures during future outbreaks or medical emergencies.PMID:38746806 | PMC:PMC11080563 | DOI:10.1016/j.ijnsa.2023.100163 (Source: Adv Data)
Source: Adv Data - May 15, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Ylse van Dijk Lisa Sanne van Tol Willem Pieter Wilco Achterberg Sytse Ulbe Zuidema Sarah Ingeborg Margit Janus Source Type: research
The Nurse Perceived Adequacy of Staffing Scale for general hospital wards: A development and psychometric validation study
CONCLUSIONS: The Nurse Perceived Adequacy of Staffing Scale (NPASS) for nurses of general hospital wards in the Netherlands has sufficient reliability and validity and is ready for use in nurse staffing research and practice.PMID:38746572 | PMC:PMC11080495 | DOI:10.1016/j.ijnsa.2023.100138 (Source: Adv Data)
Source: Adv Data - May 15, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Carmen van der Mark Justin Bitter Paul H J Hendriks Hester Vermeulen Catharina J van Oostveen Source Type: research
Effects of nurse delivered thoracic ultrasound on management of adult intensive care unit patients: A prospective observational study
CONCLUSION: In adult intensive care unit patients, UltraNurse thoracic ultrasound led to a change of management in more than a quarter of the cases, of which almost all were executed within the first 8 hours.STUDY REGISTRATION: Netherlands Trial Registration NL9047, VUmc 2020.011 (prospectively registered on: 13-11-2020).PMID:38746565 | PMC:PMC11080432 | DOI:10.1016/j.ijnsa.2023.100135 (Source: Adv Data)
Source: Adv Data - May 15, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Thomas Smits Micah Heldeweg Amy Morreale Tulleken Brian Verlaan Lonneke Floor Alwin Eijsenga Erik Lust Harry Gelissen Armand Girbes Paul Elbers Pieter Roel Tuinman Source Type: research
Assessing quality of hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery: nationwide benchmarking
CONCLUSION: Current event rates and minimum volume requirements per hospital are too low to detect any meaningful between hospital differences in mortality rate and FTR. Major morbidity rate and TO are better candidates to use for benchmarking.PMID:38747683 | DOI:10.1093/bjs/znae119 (Source: The British Journal of Surgery)
Source: The British Journal of Surgery - May 15, 2024 Category: Surgery Authors: Michelle R de Graaff Tessa E Hendriks Michel Wouters Mark Nielen Ignace de Hingh Bas Groot Koerkamp Hjalmar C van Santvoort Olivier R Busch Marcel den Dulk Joost M Klaase Erik van Zwet Bert A Bonsing Dirk J Gr ünhagen Marc G Besselink Niels F M Kok Source Type: research
Enabling nurses' engagement in the design of healthcare technology - Core competencies and requirements: A qualitative study
CONCLUSION: Nurses experience their involvement in the design process as essential, distinctive, and meaningful but experience few possibilities to combine this work with their current workload, flows, routines, and requirements. To participate in the design of health care technologies nurses need motivation and specific competencies. Organizations should facilitate time for nurses to acquire the required competencies and to be intentionally involved in technology design and development activities.PMID:38746818 | PMC:PMC11080470 | DOI:10.1016/j.ijnsa.2023.100170 (Source: Adv Data)
Source: Adv Data - May 15, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Thijs van Houwelingen Alexandra C M Meeuse Helianthe S M Kort Source Type: research
COVID-19 measures implemented for nursing home staff and their perspectives on the importance of the measures: A qualitative study
CONCLUSIONS: We showed that although nursing home staff were not always involved in decision-making during the first COVID-19 wave, there was overlap between the measures implemented by the organizations and measures considered important by staff. We suggest that organizations should be encouraged to explore ways of promoting timely involvement of staff in decision-making; for example, through monitoring staff needs and well-being and giving staff more autonomy to deviate from standard measures during future outbreaks or medical emergencies.PMID:38746806 | PMC:PMC11080563 | DOI:10.1016/j.ijnsa.2023.100163 (Source: Adv Data)
Source: Adv Data - May 15, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Ylse van Dijk Lisa Sanne van Tol Willem Pieter Wilco Achterberg Sytse Ulbe Zuidema Sarah Ingeborg Margit Janus Source Type: research
IJERPH, Vol. 21, Pages 625: A Workplace Health Promotion Program for a Predominantly Military Population: Associations with General Health, Mental Well-Being and Sustainable Employability
This study provides valuable insights into the benefits of tailor-made WHP programs. While this was an observational study without a control group, this study supports the importance of incorporating individualized approaches in WHP initiatives to foster positive outcomes in health and sustainable employability. (Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health)
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - May 15, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Rebecca Bogaers Diewertje Sluik Pieter Helmhout Fenna Leijten Tags: Article Source Type: research
Inadequate Classification of Poor Response After Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Comparative Analysis of 15 Definitions Using Data from the Dutch Arthroplasty Register and the Osteoarthritis Initiative Database
This study aimed to compare the prevalence, overlap, and discriminative accuracy of 15 definitions of poor response after TKA using two databases. (Source: The Journal of Arthroplasty)
Source: The Journal of Arthroplasty - May 15, 2024 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Malou E.M. te Molder, Michelle M. Dowsey, Jos é M.H. Smolders, Liza N. van Steenbergen, Cornelia H.M. van den Ende, Petra J.C. Heesterbeek Source Type: research
Reasons for unsuccessful recruitment of children with atopic dermatitis in primary care in the Netherlands to a cohort study with an embedded pragmatic, randomised controlled open-label trial: a survey
Conclusion
The main reason why cohort participants did not take part in the trial was that they did not contact their GPs when they experienced an AD flare-up. Furthermore, the majority of patients who contacted their GPs did not match the inclusion criteria of the trial. We expect that the lessons learnt from this study will be useful when developing future studies of children with AD in primary care. (Source: BMJ Open)
Source: BMJ Open - May 15, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: van Halewijn, K. F., Bohnen, A. M., Pasmans, S. G. M. A., Bindels, P. J. E., Elshout, G. Tags: Open access, General practice / Family practice Source Type: research
Costs and health effects of CT perfusion-based selection for endovascular thrombectomy within 6 hours of stroke onset: a model-based health economic evaluation
Conclusion
In EVT-eligible patients presenting within 6 hours after symptom onset, excluding patients based on CTP parameters was not cost-effective and could potentially harm patients. (Source: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry)
Source: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry - May 14, 2024 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: van Voorst, H., Hoving, J. W., Koopman, M. S., Daems, J. D., Peerlings, D., Buskens, E., Lingsma, H., Marquering, H. A., de Jong, H. W. A. M., Berkhemer, O. A., van Zwam, W. H., van Walderveen, M. A. A., van den Wijngaard, I. R., Dippel, D. W. J., Yoo, A. Tags: Cerebrovascular disease Source Type: research
Gender differences in tumor characteristics, treatment allocation and survival in stage I-III pancreatic cancer: a nationwide study
In this study, we analyzed the impact of sex and gender on treatment allocation and overall survival in patients with stage I-III pancreatic cancer. (Source: European Journal of Cancer)
Source: European Journal of Cancer - May 14, 2024 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: A.M. Gehrels, A.D. Wagner, M.G. Besselink, R.H.A. Verhoeven, C.H.J. van Eijck, H.W.M. van Laarhoven, J.W. Wilmink, L.G. van der Geest, for the Dutch Pancreatic Cancer Group Tags: Original Research Source Type: research
Celiac Disease Moves Into the Current Era of Modern Medicine
It is approaching 75 years since Dr W. K. Dicke from The Netherlands published his observations that the protein component of wheat was the cause of celiac disease. Although for many years advances have lagged, in part due to insufficient funding and misconceptions about the true nature of this disease, significant strides have been achieved in the past 3 decades, setting the stage for an accelerated pace of discovery over the past 10 years. This recent acceleration in knowledge, triggered by the seminal work of dedicated basic and clinical investigators working side by side, has propelled us forward, leading to major adva...
Source: Gastroenterology - May 14, 2024 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Elena F. Verdu, Peter H.R. Green Tags: Invited 2024 13th Issue: Celiac Disease Source Type: research
