Uitgaande van officiële demografische gegevens is het duidelijk dat de ouderenzorg zowel kwantitatief als kwalitatief erg belangrijk wordt. De vergrijzing en verzilvering nemen sterk toe. Sinds 1999 werd het Globaal Medisch Dossier (GMD) ingevoerd...
"Treatment choice" is the decision process whereby the psychotherapeutic methods and the psychotherapists are determined when psychotherapy is recommended for a specific client. In this article the problem of treatment choice is situated within an...
A systematic review should include all available evidence from computerized databases and other sources. The search strategy must be based on an explicit description of the subjects receiving the reference test, the diagnostic test of interest, it...
Auteurs:Frank Buntinx, Bert Aertgeerts en P Macaskill
BACKGROUND: Ventilated newborn infants breathing in asynchrony with the ventilator are at risk for complications during mechanical ventilation, such as pneumothorax or intraventricular hemorrhage, and are exposed to more severe barotrauma, which c...
Objective: Evaluation of thyroid hormone response to a single administration of triiodothyronine (T-3) early postnatally to premature infants of < /30 weeks gestational age.
Auteurs:Filip Cools, AG van Wassenaer, JH Kok en JJM de Vijlder
The diagnosis of a pulmonary vein varix with a recently introduced new CT technology, multi-slice helical CT, is discussed. The advantage of multi-slice helical CT lies in increased thin-slice coverage during a single breath hold, which is the pre...
Auteurs:Els Vanherreweghe, Hans Rigauts, Y Bogaerts en Luc Meeus
A case of traumatic pseudo-aneurysm and dissection of the proximal descending thoracic aorta in association with an aberrant right subclavian artery and a common trunk for both common carotid arteries presented. The diagnosis of this traumatic pse...
Auteurs:K Coenegrachts, Hans Rigauts, J De Letter en Luc Meeus
Background: Epidemiological research on occurrence and determinants of cancer requires reliable age and sex adjusted incidence rates for all cancer groups. The absolute numbers and age-specific data are also valuable for cancer research and planni...
Auteurs:Daniël Lousbergh, Frank Buntinx, E Cloes, D Dhollander, E Salk, L Op de Beeck, J Rummens, B Van Brabandt, J Vanden Brande, H Vandeput en A Van Waes