Getting to Know Your Patient: Content Analysis of Patients' Answers to a Questionnaire for Promoting Person-Centered Care.

Background: Person-centered care (PCC) encourages patients to actively participate in health care, thus facilitating care that fits the life of the patient. Therefore, health care professionals (HCPs) need to know the patient. As part of a broad policy for improving PCC, a digital questionnaire ("We would like to know you") consisting of 5 questions has previously been developed to help HCPs to get to know the patient with the help of patient and staff involvement.

Employment careers of young type I diabetic patients in The Netherlands.

The factors that influence the employment careers of diabetic patients aged 20 to 34 years were studied using a mail questionnaire. The study included all members of the Dutch diabetics association (Diabetes Vereniging Nederland) in that age group. A total of 5987 questionnaires were mailed; 4300 completed questionnaires were returned, giving a response rate of about 72%.

Appendectomy and the risk of developing ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease: results of a large case-control study. South Limburg Inflammatory Bowel Disease Study Group.

Background & Aims: Appendectomy has been pointed out as a protective factor for ulcerative colitis (UC). The aim of this study was to elucidate the role of appendectomy in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

Methods: Prevalent as well as incident cases with IBD were studied separately using a pairwise age- and sex-matched case-control study design.

Cigarette smoking and quality of life in patients with inflammatory bowel disease. South Limburg IBD Study Group.

Objective: Smoking has been reported as influencing disease activity in inflammatory bowel disease. The aim of our study was to elucidate the relationship between smoking and aspects of disease-specific quality of life in inflammatory bowel disease.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Is depression in elderly people followed by dementia? A retrospective cohort study based in general practice.

We used a retrospective cohort study design to test the hypothesis of a relation between old-age depression and subsequent dementia. The study sample comprised 19103 patients aged 50 or more and born after 1910, included in a family-practice-based registration network. We estimated odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (95% CI) for a diagnosis of dementia in patients with or without previous late-onset depression and survival analysis, including hazard ratios resulting from Cox regression analysis.