Using patient experiences on Dutch social media to supervise health care services: exploratory study.

Background: Social media has become mainstream and a growing number of people use it to share health care-related experiences, for example on health care rating sites. These users' experiences and ratings on social media seem to be associated with quality of care. Therefore, information shared by citizens on social media could be of additional value for supervising the quality and safety of health care services by regulatory bodies, thereby stimulating participation by consumers.

Causes of frequency and nocturia after renal transplantation.

Objective: To explore the role of bladder capacity, bladder pain, dysfunctional voiding, urgency, urinary tract infections (UTIs), and urinary output as potential causes of frequency and nocturia after renal transplantation.

Patients And Methods: Data were gathered from 52 adult renal transplant patients (35 men and 17 women, mean age 49 years), using a written questionnaire, medical records, frequency/volume charts, and urinary cultures. The mean time between transplantation and data collection was 5 months.

Dysfunction of lower urinary tract in renal transplant children with nephrologic disease.

Objectives: To investigate the relationship between dysfunction of the lower urinary tract after renal transplantation and renal transplant function in children with an underlying nephrologic disease.

Methods: The research group consisted of 21 renal transplant children (12 girls and 9 boys, mean age 13.5 years, range 6 to 18) with an underlying nephrologic disease.

Lower urinary tract symptoms after renal transplantation in children.

Purpose: We investigated the prevalence and nature of LUTS after renal Tx in children. The focus of the study was the presence of LUTS in children without a history of urological symptoms. We also studied the relationship between the characteristics of these patients and the occurrence of LUTS.

Lower urinary tract symptoms after renal transplantation: are there changes over time?

Objectives: To examine the changes in bladder function after renal transplantation by comparing lower urinary tract symptoms in the first and third years after transplantation in a group of renal transplant recipients.

Methods: The long-term changes in bladder function after transplantation were studied using a longitudinal study design. The study group consisted of 53 patients who underwent renal transplantation in 1998 at the University Medical Centre Nijmegen and who returned a completed questionnaire about their micturition pattern in the first and third year after transplantation.