[Short-term rehabilitation of Parkinson's disease patients delays nursing home placement].

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of the Groningen Parkinson Short-Stay (GPSS) treatment, a short-term and intensive clinical intervention, on delaying the definitive nursing home placement of patients with Parkinson's disease.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Method: We included 65 patients with Parkinson's disease, of whom 39 were men and 26 were women with a mean age of 72 years (range: 43-88), who in 2009 were admitted to the GPSS ward of nursing home Maartenshof in Groningen, the Netherlands, for six weeks.

Protocol for Physiotherapy Or TVT Randomised Efficacy Trial (PORTRET): a multicentre randomised controlled trial to assess the cost-effectiveness of the tension free vaginal tape versus pelvic floor muscle training in women with symptomatic moderate to severe stress urinary incontinence.

Background: Stress urinary incontinence is a common condition affecting approximately 20% of adult women causing substantial individual (quality of life) and economic (119 million Euro/year spent on incontinence pads in the Netherlands) burden. Pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) is regarded as first line treatment, but only 15-25% of women will be completely cured. Approximately 65% will report that their condition improved, but long term adherence to treatment is problematic.

The Glasgow Aneurysm Score as a tool to predict 30-day and 2-year mortality in the patients from the Dutch Randomized Endovascular Aneurysm Management trial.

Objective: Randomized trials have shown that endovascular repair (EVAR) of an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) has a lower perioperative mortality than conventional open repair (OR). However, this initial survival advantage disappears after 1 year. To make EVAR cost-effective, patient selection should be improved.

Endovascular treatment of aneurysms in the cavernous sinus: a systematic review on balloon occlusion of the parent vessel and embolization with coils.

Background And Purpose: Balloon occlusion of the parent vessel and endosaccular coiling are both frequently used for treatment of intracavernous aneurysms of the carotid artery. We performed a systematic review of studies reporting on these two treatment modalities to assess the rate of complications, rate of successful aneurysm occlusion, and clinical condition after treatment.

Methods: We performed a MEDLINE search for studies published between January 1974 and May 1999 and hand-searched recent volumes of 21 journals.