Background Acute deterioration in critical ill patients is often preceded by changes in physiological
parameters, such as pulse, blood pressure, temperature and respiratory rate. If these …

Objectives For the measurement of patient-reported outcomes, such as (health-related)
quality of life, often many measurement instruments exist that intend to measure the same …

Objective Time is considered an essential determinant in the initial care of trauma patients.
Salient tenet of trauma care is the ‘golden hour’, the immediate time after injury when …

Background & aims Numerous nutrition screening tools for the hospital setting have been
developed. The aim of this systematic review is to study construct or criterion validity and …

Objectives The efficacy of short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy (STPP) for depression
is debated. Recently, a number of large-scale and high-quality studies have been conducted. …

This is a systematic review of evidence-based treatments for children exposed to childhood
maltreatment. Because exposure to childhood maltreatment has been associated with a …

Objectives: To undertake a systematic review of available evidence on the effect of hearing
impairment and hearing aid amplification on listening effort. Two research questions were …

The aim of this study to create a comprehensive overview of factors that may influence
motivation of ethnic minority students from their own perspective. A systematic review was …

Some 2600 bog oaks have been dated from German, Dutch and Irish bogs covering the period
6000 bc to ad 1000. The ring patterns of these ‘bog oaks’ are characterized by recurrent, …

Imaging biomarkers have a potential to depict the hallmarks of cancers that characterise
cancer cells as compared to normal cells. One pertinent example is 3′-deoxy-3′- 18 F-…