Objective To explore predictors of district nursing care utilisation for community-living (older) people in the Netherlands using claims data. To cope with growing demands in district nursing care, knowledge about the current utilisation of district nursing care is important. Setting District nursing care as a part of primary care. Participants In this nationwide study, claims data were used from the Dutch risk adjustment system and national information system of health insurers. Samples were drawn of 5500 pairs of community-living people using district nursing care (cases) and people not using district nursing care (controls) for two groups: all ages and aged 75+ years (total N=22 000). Outcome measures The outcome was district nursing care utilisation and the 114 potential predictors included predisposing factors (eg, age), enabling factors (eg, socioeconomic status) and need factors (various healthcare costs). The random forest algorithm was used to predict district nursing care utilisation. The performance of the models and importance of predictors were calculated. Results For the population of people aged 75+ years, most important predictors were older age, and high costs for general practitioner consultations, aid devices, pharmaceutical care, ambulance transportation and occupational therapy. For the total population, older age, and high costs for pharmaceutical care and aid devices were the most important predictors. Conclusions People in need of district nursing care are older, visit the general practitioner more often, and use more and/or expensive medications and aid devices. Therefore, close collaboration between the district nurse, general practitioner and the community pharmacist is important. Additional analyses including data regarding health status are recommended. Further research is needed to provide an evidence base for district nursing care to optimise the care for those with high care needs, and guide practice and policymakers’ decision-making.
OBJECTIVES: Patients with hip or knee osteoarthritis (OA) may experience functional limitations in work settings. In the Cohort Hip and Cohort Knee study (CHECK) physical function was both self-reported and measured performance-based, using Functional Capacity Evaluation (FCE). Relations between self-reported scores on SF-36 and WOMAC (Western Ontario and McMaster Arthritis Index, function scales) and FCE performance were studied, and their diagnostic value for clinicians in predicting observed physical work limitations was assessed.METHODS: Ninety-two subjects scored physical function on SF-36 (scale 0-100, 100 indicating the best health level) and WOMAC (scale 0-68, 68 indicates maximum restriction) and performed the FCE. Correlations were calculated between all scores. Cross-tables were constructed using both questionnaires as diagnostic tests to identify work limitations. Subjects lifting <22.5 kg on the FCE-test 'lifting-low' were labeled as having physical work limitations. Diagnostic aspects at different cut-off scores for both questionnaires were analysed.RESULTS: Statistically significant correlations (Spearman's rho 0.34-0.49) were found between questionnaire scores and lifting and carrying tests. Results of a diagnostic cross-table with cut-off point <60 on SF-36 'physical functioning' were: sensitivity 0.34, specificity 0.97 and positive predictive value (PV+) 0.95. Cut-off point > or =21 on WOMAC 'function' resulted in sensitivity 0.51, specificity 0.88 and PV+ 0.88.CONCLUSION: Low self-reported function scores on SF-36 and WOMAC diagnosed subjects with limitations on the FCE. However, high scores did not guarantee performance without physical work limitations. These results are specific to the tested persons with early OA, in populations with a different prevalence of limitations, different diagnostic values will be found. FCE may be indicated to help clinicians to assess actual work capacity.
Background Evidence about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on existing health inequalities is emerging. This study explored differences in mental health, sense of coherence (SOC), sense of community coherence (SOCC), sense of national coherence (SONC), and social support between low and high socioeconomic (SES) groups, and the predictive value of these predictors for mental health. participants and procedure A cross-sectional study was conducted using an online survey in the Netherlands in October 2021, comprising a total of 91 respondents (n = 41, low SES; n = 50, high SES). results There were no differences in mental health, SOC, SOCC, SONC, and social support between the groups. SOC was a predictor for mental health in both groups and SOCC for the low SES group. conclusions We found that both SOC and SOCC predict mental health during the pandemic. In the article we reflect on possible pathways for strengthening these resources for mental health.
Het DIEET project onderzocht hoe de eerstelijns diëtetiek effectief en toekomstbestendig zou kunnen zijn: meetbaar en stuurbaar. In het project is onderzocht wat de succes- en faalfactoren zijn in het handelen van de diëtist tijdens het eerste consult met een patiënt. Door observaties van 605 consulten bij 237 diëtistenpraktijken in heel Nederland zijn potentiele predictoren in kaart gebracht. Op basis van deze predictoren (zoals bijv. een directieve houding van de dietist tijdens het consult) en het vaststellen van een effectieve behandeling na 9 maanden is een model ontwikkeld. Het model bleek echter minder eenvoudig dan gedacht, en de verklaring daarvoor is eigenlijk wel eenvoudig: diëtetiek is MAATWERK. Zo bleek bijvoorbeeld dat bij oudere mannen de directieve houding van de diëtist wel samen gaat met een effectieve behandeling, bij jonge vrouwen werkt motivational interviewing beter. Dit is voor de diëtetiek (en volgens onze voorzichtige inschatting ook andere beroepsgroepen) volstrekt unieke informatie. Deze resultaten hebben we nog een keer kwalitatief met de Stuurgroep van het RAAK-MKB project DIEET besproken en unaniem besloten dat de impact van dit product (model) voor de praktijk heel groot is. Deze nieuwe inzichten zullen ook verwerkt worden in de nieuwe druk van het boek (landelijk lesmateriaal diëtetiek opleidingen) dat is ontwikkeld (Neelemaat F, Ozturk H, Weijs P. Kritisch Redeneren in de Diëtetiek; bol.com). Het ontwikkelde model bleek door het maatwerk fors ingewikkelder dan vooraf ingeschat. Dit model kan echter in een web-based applicatie worden ingebouwd en de predictoren kunnen worden ingevoerd. Met deze applicatie kan bij elke diëtetiek (paramedische) stage en bij elke diëtist professional een scan worden gedaan op effectief handelen. Bij de studenten zal een relatie worden gelegd met het stagecijfer en bij de professionals met de effectieve behandeling na 9 maanden. Implementatie van de webbased applicatie in de eerstelijns diëtetiek praktijk zal meteen breed worden ingezet. Echter onderdeel van deze aanvraag is een interventie en controle groep, waarbij de interventie groep wel feedback krijgt op basis van de score en de controle groep niet. De snelle feedback (na het consult en niet pas na 9 maanden) is namelijk de sleutel tot succes. Top-up subsidie is nodig om voor het bestaande model een web-based tool te ontwikkelen en ontsluiting naar onderwijs en beroepspraktijk te bevorderen. Om in de toekomst goed gebruik van de tool door professionals, onderzoekers, studenten en docenten mogelijk te maken, is een geïntegreerde web-versie van de tool wenselijk waarin nieuwe updates eenvoudig kunnen worden doorgevoerd. Tot slot kan met Top-up de tool beter ontsloten worden voor de praktijk en voor inzet in het onderwijs door het maken van enkele goede casus beschrijvingen en het presenteren van de tool door middel van bijvoorbeeld workshops. Door Top-Up op deze manier in te zetten krijgt de doorwerking van de resultaten van het RAAK-project een flinke extra impuls.
De reclassering wil voorkomen dat hun cliënten opnieuw in de fout gaan. De werkalliantie tussen reclasseringswerker en cliënt speelt hierbij een belangrijke rol. Wat is de relatie tussen de kwaliteit van de werkalliantie en terugval in crimineel gedrag? Dit onderzoek is een voortzetting van het project ‘De werkalliantie in (semi-) gedwongen kader effectief versterkt’
Performance feedback is an important mechanism of adaptation in learning theories, as it provides one of the motivations for organizations to learn (Pettit, Crossan, and Vera 2017). Embedded in the behavioral theory of the firm, organizational learning from performance feedback predicts the probability for organizations to change with an emphasis on organizational aspirations, which serve as a threshold against which absolute performance is evaluated (Cyert and March 1963; Greve 2003). It postulates that performance becomes a ‘problem’, or the trigger to search for alternative procedures, strategies, products and behaviors, when performance is below that threshold. This search is known as problemistic search. Missing from this body of research, is empirically grounded understanding if the characteristics of performance feedback over time matter for the triggering function of the feedback. I explore this gap. This investigation adds temporality as a dimension of the performance feedback concept guided by a worldview of ongoing change and flux where conditions and choices are not given, but made relevant by actors and enacted upon (Tsoukas and Chia 2002). The general aim of the study is to complement the current knowledge of performance feedback as a trigger for problemistic search with an explicit process temporal approach. The main question guiding this project is how temporal patterns of performance feedback influence organizational change, which I answer in four chapters, each zooming into one sub-question.First, I focus on the temporal order of performance feedback by examining performance feedback and change sequences organizations go through. In this section time is under study and the goal is to explore how feedback patterns have evolved over time, just as the change states organizations pass through. Second, I focus on the plurality of performance feedback by investigating performance feedback from multiple aspiration levels (i.e. multiple qualitatively different metrics and multiple reference points) and how over time clusters of performance feedback sequences have evolved. Next, I look into the rate and scope of change relative to performance feedback sequences and add an element of signal strength to the feedback. In the last chapter, time is a predictor (in the sequences), and, it is under study (in the timing of responses). I focus on the timing of organizational responses in relation to performance feedback sequences of multiple metrics and reference points.In sum, all chapters are guided by the timing problem of performance feedback, meaning that performance feedback does not come ‘available’ at a single point in time. Similarly to stones with unequal weight dropped in the river, performance feedback with different strength comes available at multiple points in time and it is plausible that sometimes it is considered by decision-makers as problematic and sometimes it is not, because of the sequence it is part of. Overall, the investigation is grounded in the general principles of organizational learning from performance feedback, and the concept of time as duration, sequences and timing, with a focus on specification of when things happen. The context of the study is universities of applied sciences and hotels in The Netherlands. Project partner: Tilburg University, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Organization Studies
