Asthma is the most frequent chronical condition in children. Recently, the Scientific Society of General Practitioners in Flanders developed a guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of asthma in children. The present study was conducted to eval...
Auteurs:A Van Den Bruel, P Van Royen, HP Van Bever en L De Schampheleire
Caring for chronic patients is a major challenge for society in the Western world. All governments are introducing measures to benefit chronic patients. The question here is: what are chronic diseases and who is chronically ill? A chronic disease ...
Ouderen worden door onze samenleving vaak betutteld en in een passieve rol gedrongen. Nochtans hebben de meeste mensen, jong en oud, behoefte aan één of andere vorm van maatschappelijke erkenning en participatie. Voorts blijkt uit het huidige medi...
In the Netherlands, clinical practice physiotherapy guidelines are mainly implemented by using passive implementation strategies. It is well known that these strategies are not effective in establishing changes in behaviour of health care professi...
Auteurs:GE Bekkering, AJ Engers, M Wensing, HJM Hendriks, MW van Tulder, RAB Oostendorp en LM Bouter
Lint is een dorp bij Antwerpen met 8000 inwoners dat vier aparte huisartsprakijken telt: een dup- en drie solopraktijken. De onderlinge verstandhouding tussen deze huisartsen was al jaren bijzonder goed. Zij waagden de stap naar samenwerking. Sind...
Auteurs:M Blyweert, M Creemers, Jan De Lepeleire, C Hillemans en K Van Tichelt
The Haseman-Elston (HE) regression method offers a mathematically and computationally simpler alternative to variance-components (VC) models for the linkage analysis of quantitative traits. However, current versions of HE regression and VC models ...
Auteurs:Maurice Zeegers, John P Rice, Frühling V Rijsdijk, Goncalo R Abecasis en Pak C Sham
Smoking cessation is the most effective way to reduce the risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or to reduce its progression. However, little is known about the efficacy and safety of different pharmacological smoking ces...
Auteurs:Edwin J Wagena, Maurice Zeegers, Constant P van Schayck en Emiel FM Wouters
