Integrating healthcare for follow-up of adult COVID-19 patients in an outpatient clinic: A matter of cooperation.

Rationale Aims And Objectives: A large number of patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) need outpatient follow-up after hospitalization. As these patients may experience a broad range of symptoms, as do patients infected with the related SARS-CoV-1 virus, we set up a multidisciplinary outpatient clinic involving pulmonologists, internists, and geriatricians. Patients were allocated to a specialist based on symptoms reported on a self-developed questionnaire of expected symptoms of COVID-19.

The perceived impact of public involvement in palliative care in a provincial palliative care network in the Netherlands: a qualitative study.

Background And Objective: Public involvement in palliative care is challenging and difficult, because people in need of palliative care are often not capable of speaking up for themselves. Patient representatives advocate for their common interests. The aim of our study was to examine in depth the current practice of public involvement in palliative care.

Diaphragmatic breathing reduces efficiency of breathing in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

The effects of diaphragmatic breathing learning on chest wall motion, mechanical efficiency of the respiratory muscles, breathing pattern, and dyspnea sensation were studied in seven patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (FEV1 34 +/- 7% of the predicted value) during loaded and unloaded breathing. Chest wall motion was studied focusing on amplitude and phase relation of rib cage and abdominal motion. Mechanical efficiency was defined as the ratio of added external power output and added oxygen consumption during inspiratory threshold loading (40% maximal inspiratory pressure [Plmax]).

The functional recovery of stroke: a comparison between neuro-developmental treatment and the Brunnstrom method.

The relative efficacy of Neuro-Developmental Treatment (N.D.T.