Publications by authors named "J A Boogaard"
Introduction: Advance care planning (ACP) aims at empowering patients with chronic progressive disease to express and communicate their preferences for future care, but is not yet consistently applied in general practice. We explored GP residents' experiences with practicing ACP conversations through virtual simulation and its educational value.
Methods: Our study with Dutch GP residents in their first year of training used a hermeneutic phenomenological approach.
Background: The WHO has recently published updated guidance for national strategic planning for TB. To address the TB epidemic comprehensively, it is necessary to conduct an epidemiological review as part of the situation analysis in the national strategic plan.
Methods: A descriptive epidemiological study was conducted using data from the national TB register for the period of 2010-2020.
The Dutch national open database on COVID-19 has been incrementally expanded since its start on 30 April 2020 and now includes datasets on symptoms, tests performed, individual-level positive cases and deaths, cases and deaths among vulnerable populations, settings of transmission, hospital and ICU admissions, SARS-CoV-2 variants, viral loads in sewage, vaccinations and the effective reproduction number. This data is collected by municipal health services, laboratories, hospitals, sewage treatment plants, vaccination providers and citizens and is cleaned, analysed and published, mostly daily, by the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) in the Netherlands, using automated scripts. Because these datasets cover the key aspects of the pandemic and are available at detailed geographical level, they are essential to gain a thorough understanding of the past and current COVID-19 epidemiology in the Netherlands.
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- A study by the Dutch municipal health service Utrecht examined the effects of mass testing (MT) for COVID-19 in the town of Bunschoten over six weeks in early 2021.
- The results showed that MT significantly increased both the number of tests conducted and detected infections, particularly among older residents, while the rest of the province saw stable numbers.
- While MT identified more asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic cases and reduced the time between symptom onset and testing, questions remain about its overall effectiveness and proportionality for broader community health strategies.