Process utility from providing informal care: the benefit of caring

WBF Brouwer, NJA van Exel, B van den Berg… - Health policy, 2005 - Elsevier
Though economics is usually outcome-oriented, it is often argued that processes matter as
well. Utility is not only derived from outcomes, but also from the way this outcome is …

Burden of informal caregiving for stroke patients: identification of caregivers at risk of adverse health effects

NJA Van Exel, MA Koopmanschap… - Cerebrovascular …, 2005 - karger.com
Background: We assessed the objective and subjective burden of caregiving for stroke
patients and investigated which characteristics of the patient, the informal caregiver and the …

Monetary valuation of informal care: the well‐being valuation method

B Van den Berg, A Ferrer‐i‐Carbonell - Health economics, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
This paper estimates the monetary value of providing informal care by means of a well‐being
valuation method. This is done by assessing the compensating variation necessary to …

What really matters: an inquiry into the relative importance of dimensions of informal caregiver burden

NJA van Exel, WBF Brouwer… - Clinical …, 2004 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: Prevailing measures of subjective caregiver burden either have no overall summary
score or do not consider the relative importance caregivers attach to different dimensions …

The desire for support and respite care: preferences of Dutch informal caregivers

MA Koopmanschap, NJA Van Exel, GAM Van den Bos… - Health Policy, 2004 - Elsevier
Informal care is an indispensable element in the care for many patients. In order to maintain
a sustainable input of informal care, it seems important to identify measures to alleviate the …

Do informal caregivers in mental illness feel more burdened? A comparative study of mental versus somatic illnesses

LH Hastrup, B Van Den Berg… - … Journal of Public …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Aims: This study investigates a possible added subjective burden among informal caregivers
to care recipients with a mental illness or a combination of mental and somatic illnesses …

The value of informal care–a further investigation of the feasibility of contingent valuation in informal caregivers

C De Meijer, W Brouwer, M Koopmanschap… - Health …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Including informal care in economic evaluations is increasingly advocated but problematic.
We investigated three well‐known concerns regarding contingent valuation (CV): (1) the item …

High fat, low carbohydrate, enteral feeding in patients weaning from the ventilator

B Van den Berg, JM Bogaard, WCJ Hop - Intensive care medicine, 1994 - Springer
Objective To study whether high fat, low carbohydrate enteral nutrition could reduce $$\dot
VCO_2 $$ in patients during ventilator support and weaning from the ventilator in order to …

Postpneumonectomy pulmonary oedema.

L Verheijen-Breemhaar, JM Bogaard, B Van Den Berg… - Thorax, 1988 - thorax.bmj.com
The occurrence of pulmonary oedema was studied retrospectively in 243 patients who
underwent pneumonectomy in one hospital from 1975 to 1984. Pulmonary oedema developed in …

Measurements in an incompressible three-dimensional turbulent boundary layer, under infinite swept-wing conditions, and comparison with theory

B Van Den Berg, A Elsenaar, JPF Lindhout… - Journal of fluid …, 1975 - cambridge.org
First a three-dimensional turbulent boundary-layer experiment is described. This has been
carried out with the specific aim of providing a test-case for calculation methods. Much …