Publications by authors named "Buysse H"

This is part of a new series in this regular feature regarding trends in the provision of information by health science libraries. By sharing expertise and drawing together relevant trends the series intends to serve as a road map for both health science librarians and health informatics professionals. This article shows how a medical and biomedical research library changed practices, and reassessed user needs for the COVID-19 emergency.

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Local field potentials evoked by body action and mental action verbs were recorded in the subthalamic nucleus (STN) of 18 patients with Parkinson's disease through the electrodes implanted for deep brain stimulation. Compared with the medication on-condition, the medication off-condition showed a difference in activity in the early time segments, mainly in the right STN, with larger amplitudes for body action verbs. In the on-condition a similar pattern was detected in the left STN.

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This 2-year study evaluates whether tele-education adds to improvement and maintenance of good glycemic control and patient satisfaction. Adult patients were randomly assigned to study, getting immediate access to tele-education, or control group, getting this surplus education after 3 months. At several moments, clinical data were retrieved and patients completed questionnaires.

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This article is part of a new series in this regular feature. The series intend to serve as a road map by sharing expertise and drawing together trends that are relevant to both health science librarians and health informatics professionals. The present article is a collaboration of six medical and health sciences libraries in Belgium and the Flemish library and archive association (VVBAD, n.

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Background: Despite advances in diagnosis and treatment of type 2 diabetes, suboptimal metabolic control persists. Patient education in diabetes has been proved to enhance self-efficacy and guideline-driven treatment, however many people with type 2 diabetes do not have access to or do not participate in self-management support programmes. Tele-education and telecoaching have the potential to improve accessibility and efficiency of care, but there is a slow uptake in Europe.

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Aims: This study investigates whether diabetes patients visiting a primary care setting are interested in using a telemonitoring platform and if so, whether characteristics of interested users could be distinguished.

Methods: Three questionnaires were administered by 92 diabetes persons recruited between May and September 2011. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression analysis were performed.

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Purpose: Till now no validated instrument exists to measure the readiness and attitude of diabetic patients towards the use of telemonitoring. The purpose of the described study was to develop a Telemonitoring Attitude and Readiness Questionnaire and to check its validity and reliability.

Methods: After performing in-depth interviews in two separate sessions, the Telemonitoring Attitude and Readiness Questionnaire was completed by a convenience sample of 138 patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes to determine internal consistency.

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Home health care (HHC) organizations as well as hospitals encounter information-tracking problems regarding their patients. When a patient is admitted to the hospital, it is not always possible/easy to find out if this person already had HHC and if so, by which organization it was provided. HHC organizations also not always know to which hospital a person is admitted.

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Purpose: Cost-minimization is a main topic in present-day health care. Clinicians are urged to keep hospital stays as short as possible, also in Obstetrics and Gynaecology Departments. At present stabilized high-risk pregnant women stay in hospital for the sole purpose of being monitored.

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Diabetes is one of the most challenging problems in the 21st century, whereby research showed that reducing the concentration of blood glucose is thought to prevent or reduce the long-term complications. To do so, a multidisciplinary approach is favourable. In Belgium, a revalidation programme for the diabetic patients concerning self-regulation was introduced followed by the introduction of the Diabetes Pass in March 2003 whereby some goals were stipulated.

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TENDO is a project conducted by the Department of Medical Informatics and Statistics of the Ghent University in the field of E-Learning and more specifically E-Testing (Electronic, on line testing). At this stage, the main goal of Tendo is to measure the knowledge of (medical) students making use of the Internet. The on line Tendo E-Testing tool has been used to examine students of the 4th year studying Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation.

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The Dynamic Patient Simulator (DPS) is an interactive case-program. After solving the case, third year medical students filled in an anonymous questionnaire. In this study we tried to have insight in the students' learning process and satisfaction.

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