Publications by authors named "Marieke M van der Zande"
Introduction: People around the world are increasingly affected by multimorbidity, where conditions in different medical specialties can correlate in complex ways. This increases the relevance of multidisciplinary integrated care pathways. Modern software solutions provide vast opportunities to enhance information exchange between patients and various healthcare professionals, thereby improving patient-centered and inter-professional care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To explore barriers to planned dental visiting, investigating how barriers interlink, how they accumulate and change, and how individuals envisage overcoming their combination of barriers through personal strategies.
Methods: An ethnographic study was conducted of adult urgent dental care attenders who did not have a dentist, including 155 hours of nonparticipant observations, 97 interviews and 19 follow-up interviews in six urgent dental care settings. Data were analysed using constant comparison, first identifying barriers and personal strategies to overcome them, and subsequently analysing interlinks between barriers and personal strategies.
Article Synopsis
- Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major public health concern in the UK, driven largely by antibiotic overprescription, particularly in primary care, prompting a need to understand prescribing behaviors among GPs.
- Qualitative interviews with 41 GPs in North-West England revealed that GPs face challenges integrating patient expectations with the responsible use of antibiotics, necessitating supportive mechanisms like practice meetings and more consultation time.
- The study highlights the importance of consistent communication, collaboration among colleagues, and well-defined practice policies in promoting responsible antibiotic prescribing across different levels of prescribing practices.
Introduction: Studies have investigated the relationships between chronic systemic and dental conditions, but it remains unclear how such knowledge can be used in clinical practice. In this article, we provide an overview of existing systematic reviews, identifying and evaluating the most frequently reported dental-chronic disease correlations and common risk factors.
Methods: We conducted a systematic review of existing systematic reviews (umbrella review) published between 1995 and 2017 and indexed in 4 databases.
Dentists' opinions on using digital technologies in dental practice.
Community Dent Oral Epidemiol
April 2018
Objectives: To investigate which opinions among dentists are associated with level of technology use, when characteristics of the dentist and dental practice, as well as motivating work aspects are taken into account.
Methods: A total of 1000 general dental practitioners in the Netherlands received a questionnaire on digital technologies they use, opinions on using technologies and related motivating work aspects. Questions were derived from expert interviews, the Dentists' Experienced Job Resources Scale and literature on technology implementation.
Objectives: To investigate (1) the degree of digital technology adoption among general dental practitioners, and to assess (2) which personal and practice factors are associated with technology use.
Methods: A questionnaire was distributed among a stratified sample of 1000 general dental practitioners in the Netherlands, to measure the use of fifteen administrative, communicative, clinical and diagnostic technologies, as well as personal factors and dental practice characteristics.
Results: The response rate was 31.