Publicaties

Dementerende ouderen -en hun huisgenoten, hulpverleners en verzorgers -zijn zeer geholpen met een aangepaste inrichting van hun (te)huis. Daarbij gaat het niet altijd om grote ingrepen maar vaak om eenvoudige aanpassingenAnderzijds zijn veranderin...

A multi-center case-referent study was conducted on the relation between paternal occupational exposure and spina bifida in offspring. Cases were born between 1980 and 1992 in The Netherlands. Referents were recruited from hospitals and from the g...

We present a child with a remarkable constellation of abnormalities comprising cleft lip and palate, pigmentary retinopathy, hydronephrosis, malrotation of the gut and obstructive liver disease. This patient, together with two other reported cases...

A serological survey to determine the immunity to diphtheria in the Flemish population was conducted according to the recommendations of the World Health Organization. Immunity to diphtheria was determined on a randomised, stratified sample (1679 ...

BACKGROUND: Although the effectiveness of influenza vaccination in high-risk groups has been proven, vaccine coverage continues to be less than 50% in The Netherlands. To improve vaccination rates, data on the organizational factors, which should ...

An open randomized controlled clinical trial was conducted to compare the reactogenicity of a recombinant hepatitis B vaccine (Engerix-B) when injected with the Bioject device (a pneumatically powered drug delivery system using disposable syringes...

The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence and incidence of the most frequent chronic health problems in relation to age in people with intellectual disabilities living in residential facilities in the Netherlands. A prospective c...

From 1990 to 1993, the University of Limburg and the Pepijn Centre, the Netherlands, have performed a prospective cohort study on ageing and intellectual disability. The key questions of the study were: "To what degree do the level of care depende...