What is needed for nurses to work with evidence-based practice? A qualitative study.

Background: Transformation of healthcare is necessary to ensure patients receive high-quality care. Working with the evidence-based practice (EBP) principles enables nurses to make this shift. Although working according to these principles is becoming more common, nurses base their actions too much on traditions and intuition.

Low-value wound care: Are nurses and physicians choosing wisely? A mixed methods study.

Background: Choosing Wisely is an international movement that stimulates conversations about unnecessary care. The campaign created five recommendations including a statement that less wound care is sometimes better.

Aims: The study aims to evaluate nurses' and physicians' adherence to the Choosing Wisely recommendations for acute wound care in the Netherlands and the barriers and facilitators to improve this.

The Dutch version of the Oral Health Assessment Tool: Translation and inter-rater reliability among community nurses.

Objectives: Translating the Oral Health Assessment Tool (OHAT) into Dutch and assessing the inter-rater reliability among community nurses.

Methods: The original version of the OHAT was translated following the five stages of the 'Guidelines for the Process of Cross-Cultural Adaptation'. After a forward and backward translation, consensus on the pre-final version was obtained in an expert panel discussion.

Identifying patients with benign chronic intestinal failure on home parenteral nutrition in whom a psychological support intervention may improve quality of life.

Rationale: Home parenteral nutrition (HPN) is the ultimate treatment for patients who suffering from chronic intestinal failure (CIF). We tested the feasibility and effects of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) in patients on HPN. Because of the high dropout rate, however, we were next urged to develop and test a web-based coaching program (web-based MBCT).

The Link Between Bacterial Inflammagens, Leaky Gut Syndrome and Colorectal Cancer.

There is a causal relationship between cancer (including colorectal cancer), chronic systemic inflammation and persistent infections, and the presence of dysregulated circulating inflammatory markers. It is known that aberrant clot formation and coagulopathies occur in systemic inflammation. In colorectal cancer, there is a close link between gut dysbiosis and an inflammatory profile.