Publications by authors named "A Dobbe"
Background: Anecdotal reports suggest that missed diagnosis in general practice during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to a drop in life-threatening events (LTEs) detected in hospitals.
Objectives: To investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the accuracy of urgency allocation by telephone triage of patients with shortness of breath and/or chest discomfort in out-of-hours primary care (OHS-PC). Accuracy is defined as the correct allocation of high urgency to patients with LTEs and low urgency to those without.
Background: In out-of-hours primary care (OHS-PC), semi-automatic decision support tools are often used during telephone triage. In the Netherlands, the Netherlands Triage Standard (NTS) is used. The NTS is mainly expert-based and evidence on the diagnostic accuracy of the NTS' urgency allocation against clinically relevant outcomes for patients calling with shortness of breath (SOB) is lacking.
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- The study explores the effectiveness of the Free-Gliding Screw for treating slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE) in children, analyzing how skeletal maturity affects femur growth and remodeling after surgery.
- It involved assessing the skeletal maturity of young patients using a modified Oxford Bone score and took radiographic measurements to track changes in screw length and femoral structure over time.
- Findings suggest that younger patients with certain maturity scores and open triradiate cartilage experienced significant growth of the screw and femoral remodeling, which could guide treatment decisions for SCFE.
Type 1 supracondylar humerus (SCH) fractures tend to heal well when immobilized by above-elbow casting or long-arm splinting. There is no consensus as to whether one treatment method is more effective than the other for this injury. The purpose of this study was to compare the radiographic and functional outcomes of long-arm splinting and above-elbow casting as the definitive treatment for children with type 1 SCH fractures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Simple bone cysts are benign bony lesions. Treatment strategies are varied for this particular pathology. It remains controversial as to what the ideal treatment strategy is.
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