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… Organisation of healthcare Aan How is healthcare organised now? And what about when it has to be organised across several domains, such as … hospitals, for example, are organised on the basis of capacity (e.g. operating theatres and intensive care beds) and specialisms. Sometimes there is a mismatch between supply and demand – … Organisation of healthcare …

… research agenda and commissions research programme 23 March 2021 The Dutch Minister of Medical Care and Sport, Tamara van Ark, intends to ask ZonMw to carry out a biomedical research … from the ZonMw ME/CFS research agenda. This agenda was presented to the Minister of Medical Care and Sport (VWS) on the 23rd of December 2020. The research agenda was drawn up by a … the illness. Many therapists know little or nothing about the disease. Only by working together intensively can differences of opinion be bridged, so we can we really change the lives of …

… E-health Aan E-health helps to keep healthcare accessible and affordable. Thanks to e-health people can live longer independently at home, with more individual control. At the same time it saves valuable time for care professionals, so that they can be where they are indispensable. What are e-health applications? E-health includes digital applications and care technologies that provide patient care and/or support. There are already many different …

… Gender in Health and Research summer school Aan Integrating sex and gender in health and health care research is not always a piece of cake for researchers. How do you account for sex and … March 2023 During the Erasmus Summer Programme in August 2022, ZonMw and ErasmusMC organized an intensive course program on sex and gender in health and research for a third edition. For five … (inter)national experts and guest speakers shared their knowledge and expertise with early career researchers from all around the world. Which lessons did they learn about integrating sex …

… of Rational Antimicrobial Control Strategies in ICUs Antibiotics Antimicrobial resistance Intensive care Resistance Mon, 12/30/2024 - 12:00 - Tue, 06/30/2026 - 12:00 10680012310019 … are vulnerable. They often develop (suspicion of) an infection. As a result, antibiotics are intensively used in the ICU. This leads to selection of more resistant bacteria and increased use of broad-spectrum antibiotics. That is why careful use of antibiotics in an ICU is crucial. Antibiotic stewardship programs (ASPs) have …

… Aftercare trajectories following hospital admission Aan Can we further develop the aftercare … There are several aftercare trajectories. Following hospital admission – whether or not to intensive care – some people return home without extra care. Others receive primary care from, … Aftercare trajectories following hospital admission …

… Half of the patients received cognitive behavioural therapy and the other half the usual care. In the majority of cases, this was occupational therapy and physiotherapy.’ Afbeelding We … easily performed our study with five times as many people. There clearly was a high demand for care.’ An intensive programme Tanja: ‘It was equally striking that people in the cognitive behavioural …

… to improve the quality of life of hay fever patients. Research into sustainable hospital care Hospital care has a major impact on the climate and environment. For example, the CO2 emissions of a heart operation are equivalent to flying 4,700 kilometres. Intensive care specialist Hugo Touw studies the environmental and climate impact of individual …

… Paul Buijs helped as a volunteer in distributing personal protective equipment across the healthcare institutions in the North of the Netherlands. Many healthcare organisations – especially … We conducted more than 70 interviews, for instance with purchasers, bed coordinators, intensive care physicians, coordinators of the Regional Capacity and Patient Transfer Service … larger role in the coordination and decision-making of existing regional networks, such as the intensive care networks, in which people frequently work on the basis of trust, making mutual …

… Aan It has become increasingly clear that differences in sex and gender impact health and healthcare. Symptoms of diseases can be different in women than in men, for example. In order to … She feels a band around her arm being pumped up, then the air is released. Maria is lying in intensive care. A nurse tells her that she just had a heart attack. In the Netherlands, five …

… This page lists all topics and the projects looking into them. Treatment Specialist medical care The Federation of Medical Specialists (Federatie Medisch Specialisten, FMS) drafted a … progresses. Topics being studied include what factors increase the likelihood of admission to intensive care and what impact obesity has on the course of COVID-19.  Read more about the …

… score is associated with SARS-CoV-2 viral load during admission in individuals admitted to the intensive care unit: the CoLaIC cohort study Auteur(s) Tom Schoenmakers, Mathie P G Leers, Ruben … a clinical laboratory parameter-based deisolation algorithm for patients with COVID-19 in the intensive care unit using viability PCR: the CoLaIC multicentre cohort study protocol Auteur(s) … a clinical laboratory parameter-based deisolation algorithm for patients with COVID-19 in the intensive care unit using viability PCR: the CoLaIC multicentre cohort study protocol Auteur(s) …