Gepubliceerd interview in ICT&health: Zorgaanbieder Omring heeft samen met Hogeschool InHolland een bijzonder lectoraat in het leven geroepen om inzichtelijk te maken welke kansrijke innovaties op het gebied van zorg en behandeling en technologie toepasbaar en uiteindelijk bewezen effectief zijn voor geriatrische revalidatie. Ook heeft Omring samen met onderwijsorganisatie Vonk het practoraat zorgtechnologie ingesteld. Het doel is praktijkgericht onderzoek te koppelen aan toekomstbestendige ouderenzorg, aan innovatie en aan professionalisering in het onderwijs en de beroepspraktijk.
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Binnen de revalidatie van patiënten met aspecifieke chronische lagerug pijn (CLRP) is het accent geleidelijk aan verschoven van eenbiomedische naar een bio-psychosociale revalidatie. Een benaderingbinnen de revalidatie is de cognitief somatische revalidatie. De positieveresultaten waren mede aanleiding voor dit promotieonderzoek. Decognitief somatische revalidatie heeft als doel het verminderen enonder controle houden van de ervaren beperkingen bij patiëntenmet aspecifieke CLRP. Binnen dit programma leeft de gedachte datnaast de beoordeling van de maximale en submaximale capaciteitook de ervaren inspanning van belang is voor een uitgebreider beeldvan het probleem van de patiënt en om de effecten van de cognitiefsomatische revalidatie te kunnen evalueren. De consequentie vandeze gedachtegang maakt dat er meetinstrumenten nodig zijn omzowel de fysieke capaciteit als ook de ervaren inspanning te kunnenbepalen. Tot op heden is het onduidelijk welke factoren bepalend zijnvoor het effect van de vermindering in ervaren beperkingen van depatiënten door het cognitieve somatische revalidatie programma. Ditonderzoek concentreert zich op het bepalen van de psychometrischeeigenschappen van de meetinstrumenten die zowel de fysieke capaciteitals ook de ervaren inspanning meten en de factoren die bepalendzijn voor de vermindering van de ervaren beperkingen van patiëntenmet aspecifieke CLRP die deel nemen aan een cognitief somatischerevalidatie programma.
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Background: Frailty and multimorbidity are common among patients in geriatric rehabilitation care (GRC). Proper care of these patients involves multiple professionals which requires optimal interprofessional collaboration to provide the best possible support. Interprofessional collaboration (IPC) goes beyond multi-professional collaboration. It requires professionals to think beyond the expertise of their own discipline and work on joint outcomes in which the patient is actively involved. This study describes the development of the GRC teams of an elderly care organization towards the IPC. Methods: Mixed method pre-post study of 15 months. The interprofessional training program comprised team trainings, webinars, and online team sessions. Data was aggregated by administering the Extended Professional Identity Scale (EPIS) and QuickScan Interprofessional Collaboration (QS) measurements to GRC staff and by observations of the multi-professional team consultation (MPC) meetings of six GRC teams of an organization for elderly care in Drachten and Dokkum in the Netherlands. ADL independence (Barthel Index) and number of inpatient days were analyzed before and after the project. Results: Pretest healthcare professional response was 106, patients for analyses was 181; posttest response was 84, patients was 170. The EPIS shows improvement on “interprofessional belonging” (P =.001, 95%CI: 0.57–2.21), “interprofessional commitment” (P =.027, 95%CI: 0.12–1.90), and overall “interprofessional identity” (P =.013, 95%CI: 0.62 − 5.20). On the QS, all domains improved; “shared values” (P =.009, 95%CI: 0.07 − 0.47), “context” (P =.005, 95%CI: 0.08 − 0.44), “structure & organization” (P =.001, 95%CI: 0.14 − 0.56), “group dynamics & interaction” (P
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This chapter describes the growing influence of point-of-care diagnostics (POCD) on the daily lives of citizens, their immediate families, and healthcare providers. With a view to the future, the most important contemporary developments in this field are discussed, such as noninvasive sensor technology in the diagnostic process, practical examples of point-of-care diagnostics (POCD), including the quantify-self movement and infrared technology. Cost-effectiveness, adoption of POCD, and the contribution of POCD innovations to self-management and health literacy are also discussed. Developments in which deep learning and artificial intelligence are used to make the diagnostic results more reliable are also conferred, such as the development of point-of-care Internet diagnostics. The discussion of professional advice dilemma’s in POCD, the patient’s appreciation of POCD, and ethical and philosophical considerations conclude this chapter.
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Een reconstructie van de voorste kruisband (VKB) brengt hoge me- dische en maatschappelijke kosten met zich mee. De auteurs van dit artikel vatten de resultaten van wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar preventieprogramma’s voor VKB- blessures samen. Zij vullen deze aan met nieuwe inzichten over mo- torisch leren en pleiten voor herzie- ning van preventieprogramma’s en het revalidatietraject.
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Lifelong learning is necessary for nurses and caregivers to provide good, person-centred care. To facilitate such learning and embed it into regular working processes, learning communities of practice are considered promising. However, there is little insight into how learning networks contribute to learning exactly and what factors of success can be found. The study is part of a ZonMw-funded research project ‘LeerSaam Noord’ in the Netherlands, which aims to strengthen the professionalization of the nursing workforce and promote person-centred care. We describe what learning in learning communities looks like in four different healthcare contexts during the start-up phase of the research project. A thematic analysis of eleven patient case-discussions in these learning communities took place. In addition, quantitative measurements on learning climate, reciprocity behavior, and perceptions of professional attitude and autonomy, were used to underpin findings. Reflective questioning and discussing professional dilemma's i.e. patient cases in which conflicting interests between the patient and the professional emerge, are of importance for successful learning.
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Within this study the aim is to measure running workload and relevant running technique key points on varying cadence in recreational runners using a custom build sensor system ‘Nodes’. Seven participants ran on a treadmill at a self-chosen comfortable speed. Cadence was randomly guided by a metronome using 92%, 96%, 100%, 104%, and 108% of the preferred cadence in 2-min trials. Workload was measured by collecting the heart rate and the rating of perceived exertion (RPE 1 to 10) scores. Heart rate data shows that the 100% cadence trial was most economical with a relative heart rate of 99.2%. The 108% cadence trial had the lowest relative RPE score with 96.2%. The sample rate of the Nodes system during this experiment was too low to analyze the key points. Three requirements are proposed for the further engineering of a wearable running system, (i) sampling frequency of minimal 50 Hz, (ii) step-by-step analysis, and (iii) collecting workload in the heart rate and RPE.
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Background: Nurse-sensitive indicators and nurses’ satisfaction with the quality of care are two commonly used ways to measure quality of nursing care. However, little is known about the relationship between these kinds of measures. This study aimed to examine concordance between nurse-sensitive screening indicators and nurse-perceived quality of care. Methods: To calculate a composite performance score for each of six Dutch non-university teaching hospitals, the percentage scores of the publicly reported nurse-sensitive indicators: screening of delirium, screening of malnutrition, and pain assessments, were averaged (2011). Nurse-perceived quality ratings were obtained from staff nurses working in the same hospitals by the Dutch Essentials of Magnetism II survey (2010). Concordance between the quality measures was analyzed using Spearman’s rank correlation. Results: The mean screening performances ranged from 63 % to 93 % across the six hospitals. Nurse-perceived quality of care differed significantly between the hospitals, also after adjusting for nursing experience, educational level, and regularity of shifts. The hospitals with high-levels of nurse-perceived quality were also high-performing hospitals according to nurse-sensitive indicators. The relationship was true for high-performing as well as lower-performing hospitals, with strong correlations between the two quality measures (r S = 0.943, p = 0.005). Conclusions: Our findings showed that there is a significant positive association between objectively measured nurse sensitive screening indicators and subjectively measured perception of quality. Moreover, the two indicators of quality of nursing care provide corresponding quality rankings. This implies that improving factors that are associated with nurses’ perception of what they believe to be quality of care may also lead to better screening processes. Although convergent validity seems to be established, we emphasize that different kinds of quality measures could be used to complement each other, because various stakeholders may assign different values to the quality of nursing care.
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