Publications by authors named "Lieke van Gerwen"
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- The study explores the validity of using healthcare insurance claims data for urinary incontinence (UI) pad usage as a measure for assessing UI rates after radical prostatectomy (RP).
- It involves 1624 RP patients in the Netherlands, with data collected on pad use and patient-reported outcomes (PROMs) to determine the correlation between these two measures.
- Findings suggest claims data has moderate accuracy in reflecting UI rates compared to PROMs, indicating it could serve as a conservative indicator of quality in this context.
Purpose: To identify parameters associated with the downward trend in the uptake of Low Vision Services (LVS) in the Netherlands.
Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted based on a Dutch national health insurance claims database (Vektis CV) of all adults (≥18 years) who received LVS from 2015 until 2018. Descriptive statistics were used to assess socio-demographic, clinical and contextual characteristics and other healthcare utilisation of the study population.
Background: Concerns have been raised about the accessibility and quality of cancer-related care for people with intellectual disabilities (ID). However, there is limited insight into cancer incidence and the utilization of cancer care at the ID population level to inform targeted cancer control strategies. Therefore, we aimed to examine differences in the utilization of cancer-related care between people with and without ID, identified through diagnostic codes on health insurance claims.
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