Publications by authors named "Marjan Kromkamp"
Article Synopsis
- DeltaScan is a special tool that helps doctors quickly find out if a patient has delirium, which is a type of confusion that can happen when someone is very sick.
- The study tested DeltaScan on 494 patients in different hospitals and found that it was very accurate, with a success rate of 99% in detecting brain issues.
- The researchers want to learn more about how well DeltaScan can predict future problems related to delirium in patients.
Article Synopsis
- The study looked at how having a mental health issue before a serious injury affects hospital recovery for trauma patients.
- Out of 640 patients, 99 had mental health issues, which made their hospital stay longer and recovery more complicated compared to those without such issues.
- The results showed that patients with psychiatric problems had more health problems during their hospital stay, especially when they had new mental health crises.
Background: The reference standard in studies on delirium assessment tools is usually based on the clinical judgment of only one delirium expert and may be concise, unstandardized, or not specified at all. This multicenter study investigated the performance of the Delirium Interview, a new reference standard for studies on delirium assessment tools allowing classification of delirium based on written reports.
Methods: We tested the diagnostic accuracy of our standardized Delirium Interview by comparing delirium assessments of the reported results with live assessments.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare 1-year post-discharge health-related quality of life (HRQL) between trauma patients with and without psychiatric co-comorbidity.
Methods: A retrospective single-center cohort study identified all severely injured adult trauma patients admitted to a Level 1 trauma center between 2018 and 2019. Bivariate analysis compared patients with and without psychiatric co-morbidity, which was defined as prior diagnosis by a healthcare provider or acute psychiatric consultation for new or chronic mental illness.
[Post-partum psychosis: an acute illness requiring resolute action].
Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd
April 2016
A 34-year-old woman was seen in our hospital, where she had been brought after jumping from the window together with her 3-month-old son. She had survived the jump with severe foot fractures, but her son had died. In the weeks after giving birth she had suffered from sleep disturbances and fluctuating affective symptoms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDecreased thalamic expression of the homeobox gene DLX1 in psychosis.
Arch Gen Psychiatry
September 2003
Context: A shared vulnerability to develop psychosis can be related to abnormalities in thalamic circuits in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and could be a genetic link between these disorders. Homeobox genes involved in development and differentiation of the brain could play an important role in these disorders.
Objective: To determine whether patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder have different thalamic expression patterns of 2 homeobox genes, DLX1 and SHOX2 (alias OG12X or SHOT) compared with psychiatric and nonpsychiatric control subjects.