There are about 13332 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Netherlands. The country of the clinical trial is determined by the location of where the clinical research is being studied. Most studies are often held in multiple locations & countries.
Female participants with weight and shape concerns will either receive a six-week meaning-centered intervention led by a trainer or be allocated to a waitlist condition. They will receive the same questionnaires at three time points: Before the intervention, immediately after, and four weeks later. The researchers hypothesize that a meaning-centered intervention for young women with weight and shape issues will increase participants meaning in life and decrease their eating disorder symptoms immediately after the intervention and at 4-week follow-up when compared to a waitlist condition.
Research Involving Human Persons (RIHP 3) focusing on the treatment of type 0-0-1 bifurcation lesions in routine practice. Multicenter Study. To retrieve and analyze the details of different angioplasty techniques used in this type of bifurcation lesion (Medina 0-0-1) in order to describe current practice and search for predictors of clinical events.
The purpose of this investigational study is to document the safety, clinical effectiveness and health economic analytics of DTM™ SCS programming delivered through the Intellis™ neurostimulator in subjects with chronic, intractable pain of the trunk with or without lower limb pain, including unilateral or bilateral pain without prior history of spine surgery and refractory to conservative treatment and are not candidates for lumbar spinal surgery.
Currently, the treatment of Crohn's patients with perianal fistulas predominantly exists of anti-TNF medication. However, its efficiency has never been directly compared to surgical closure of the perianal fistula. The aim of this study is to compare radiological fistula healing at MRI after 18 months follow-up in Crohn's patients undergoing surgical closure to anti-TNF medication as treatment of perianal Crohn's fistulas. Study design: In this multicenter comprehensive cohort design (CCD) Crohn's patients with a (re)active high perianal fistula will be allocated to anti-TNF for 1 year or surgical closure after 2 months under a short course of anti-TNF. Patients with a distinct preference will be treated accordingly, whereas only indifferent patients will be randomised in the usual way. Main study parameters/endpoints: The primary outcome parameter is the number of patients with radiologically closed fistulas based on an evaluated MRI-score after 18 months. Secondary outcomes are clinical closure, number of patients undergoing surgical re-interventions and number of re-interventions, recurrences and quality of life based on the Perianal Disease Activity Index (PDAI). Nature and extent of the burden and risks associated with participation, benefit and group relatedness: All patients will receive one of the two standard treatment approaches that are currently used for Crohn's fistulas. All effort has been performed to ensure most optimal treatment, according to best available evidence and current guidelines. Since there is no experimental study-arm, there are no additional risks associated with participation. During the study, the medical staff and trial nurses will monitor the necessity of surgical interventions and hospitalizations. At baseline and after 18 months all patients will undergo a MRI to score the fistula. Secondary outcome parameters will be assessed during visits to the outpatient clinic or telephone consultations at baseline and at intervals of 3 months for the duration of the study period. Every 6 months patients were asked to fill out the PDAI questionnaire with their physician. Based on the available literature, radiological closure of fistulas is expected in 40% of patients in the surgical closure group compared to 15% in the anti-TNF group. The increase in closure rate from 15% to 40% is considered clinically relevant. Due to the combination of a preference and randomized cohort, the appropriate sample size to detect this 25% difference is flexible and is adjusted for a skewed distribution. The minimal sample size, in case of a 1:1 treatment allocation, needed to detect this difference with a Chi-square test equals 86 patients (alpha 0.05, power 80%). The maximal allowed skewed distribution is set at 1:4, which will result in a maximal sample size of 116 patients.
Background: Multimodal prehabilitation programs are effective in reducing complications after colorectal surgery in patients with high risk of postoperative complications due to low aerobic capacity and/or malnutrition. However, high implementation fidelity is needed to achieve these effects in real-life practice. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the implementation fidelity of an evidence-based prehabilitation program in the real-life context of a regional hospital. Methods: In this observational cohort study with multiple case analysis, we enrolled all patients who underwent surgery for colorectal cancer from January 2023 to June 2023, in one Dutch peripheral hospital. Patients meeting criteria for low aerobic capacity or malnutrition were advised to participate in a personalized prehabilitation program. Implementation fidelity was investigated on four domains; 1) coverage (participation rate), 2) duration (number of days following the prehabilitation program), 3) content (delivery of prescribed intervention modalities), and 4) frequency (attendance of sessions and compliance with prescribed parameters). An aggregated percentage of content and frequency was calculated to determine overall adherence. The intended outcomes were improvement in preoperative aerobic capacity and malnutrition, and improved postoperative recovery (i.e., reducing complications, length of stay, and time to functional recovery).
Patients with symptomatic spinal metatstasis will be prosepectively included in a database after theu signes informed consent. Minimally six months after inclusion the survival status is analyzed. These are correlated with factors that are used in an earlier develloped prediction model
Since there is conflicting and insufficient data regarding CH personality and addictive behaviour, the investigators will investigate risk- and reward seeking behaviour in people with cluster headache. If an increased tendency towards this behaviour is shown, it will add to the clinical knowledge of cluster headache and possible lead to insights in a common biological susceptibility.
The goal of this study is to investigate the inter-rater variability of mortality risk calculations for high-risk non-cardiac surgical patients. For this purpose patient information from health care files were used. Five anesthesiologists calculated the mortality risks with three calculators for 34 high-risk non-cardiac surgical patients. The patients were discussed in a preoperative multidisciplinary discussion in a large teaching hospital in The Netherlands.
Older adults from ethnic minorities show on average a worse disease risk profile compared to the majority populations. An important risk factor to develop chronic diseases is the loss of muscle mass and functioning, also known as sarcopenia. Several randomized controlled trials (RCTs) showed that the combination of adequate protein intake and physical exercise is most effective to prevent the loss of muscle mass, strength and functioning in older adults. However, until shortly, no intervention that included protein and exercise was available that accounted for the special socio-cultural needs of ethnic minority populations. Therefore the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) and ProMIO project group developed a cultural sensitive lifestyle intervention with protein and exercise carried out by dieticians and physical therapists to provide a tailored treatment for older adults from ethnic minorities. This project aims to evaluate the effectiveness of this new intervention on protein intake, physical activity behavior, muscle mass, muscle strength, function and quality of life. The cost-effectiveness of this new intervention will also be evaluated.
A qualitative research study will be conducted using semi-structured interviews. The target population includes regulators involved in the registration of PKIs and healthcare professionals who use PKIs in clinical practice. Participants will be recruited until a rich understanding of the subject is reached.