Introducing e-health technology to routine cataract care: patient perspectives on web-based eye test for postoperative telemonitoring.

Purpose: To explore cataract patients' experiences with an e-health tool for self-assessing visual function (ie, a web-based eye test), and to formulate recommendations for its successful adoption in routine cataract care.

Setting: Clinics in the Netherlands, Germany, and Austria.

Design: Mixed-methods study.

Complex challenges for patients with protracted incurable cancer: an ethnographic study in a comprehensive cancer centre in the Netherlands.

Objective: Advances in oncology increasingly result in protracted disease trajectories for patients with incurable cancer. In this disease phase, patients are aware of the incurable nature of cancer although they are not yet approaching the last phase of life. We explored the challenges for patients confronted with protracted incurable cancer.