Publications by authors named "A van Huis"

Objectives: To evaluate whether the costs of a successful tailored multifaceted strategy to improve hand hygiene compliance outweighed the savings by reducing infection costs in Dutch long-term care facilities (LTCFs).

Design: A retrospective cost analysis alongside a stepped-wedge cluster-randomized controlled trial.

Setting And Participants: The study included 14 LTCFs (23 wards) in the Netherlands.

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Objectives: This study evaluated the effect of a tailored, multifaceted improvement strategy on hand hygiene compliance in long-term care facilities (LTCFs). We also performed a process evaluation to explore the mechanisms through which our strategy brought about change.

Design: We conducted a stepped-wedge cluster-randomized controlled trial with a sequential rollout of the improvement strategy to all participating LTCFs.

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The search for new, alternative and sustainable feeding sources, including insects, has become an important challenge on the feed market. In 2017, the European Union (EU) started to allow the use of insect meals as feeds for fish. In addition, in 2021, the EU also authorised the use of insect meal for pig and poultry farming.

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Objectives: To assess the effects of a quality improvement (QI) team training intervention, by measuring the intervention fidelity and the compliance with a surgical site infection (SSI) bundle in the operating theatre (OT).

Design: Multicentre before-after study.

Setting: This study was performed in four Dutch hospitals.

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This paper investigated facilitators and barriers to implementing the European Football Fans in Training program (EuroFIT) in professional sports clubs in England, the Netherlands, Norway, and Portugal. We analyzed qualitative data collected at clubs that delivered EuroFIT, based on semi-structured interviews with coordinating staff (n = 15), coaches (n = 16), and focus group interviews with participants (n = 108), as well as data from clubs that considered delivering EuroFIT in the future, based on interviews with staff (n = 7) and stakeholders (n = 8). Facilitators for implementation related to the content and structure of the program, its evidence-base, and the context for delivery in the football stadia.

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