Publications by authors named "R P G Ottenheijm"
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- Radiology reports often use complex jargon that can confuse patients, leading to anxiety and difficulty understanding their health information.
- This review explores how different formats of radiology reports affect how patients perceive, remember, and act on the information they receive about their health.
- The findings show that using simpler language, illustrations, and glossaries in radiology reports significantly improves patient understanding and reduces anxiety compared to traditional formats.
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- - This study explored adult patients' treatment preferences for shoulder pain in primary care, using a discrete choice experiment where participants compared different treatment options.
- - Three main groups were identified: one that mainly opted out unless treatments were highly effective, another that preferred treatments without injections, and a third group that also preferred to opt out and avoided treatment.
- - The likelihood of joining each group was influenced by past experiences with injections or physiotherapy, indicating that these previous treatments affected their current preferences.
Article Synopsis
- * Research in mice shows that the absence of certain TRPC channel proteins (specifically TRPC5) leads to a significant reduction in adrenaline release during insulin-induced hypoglycemia.
- * There is a newly identified signaling pathway where specific receptor activation leads to TRPC5 channel stimulation, impacting adrenaline secretion, with similar plasma metabolite changes noted in both TRPC5-deficient mice and HAAF patients.
Expanding the ABCC-tool for osteoarthritis: Development and content validation.
Osteoarthr Cartil Open
September 2024
Objective: Osteoarthritis (OA) care should be more person-centered based on physical, emotional and social aspects, instead of the current stepped-care approach solely based on physical symptoms, according to OA patients. By developing a novel module for OA in the Assessment of Burden of Chronic Condition (ABCC)-tool, a tool based on these three aspects, experienced quality of OA care and shared-decision making are expected to improve.
Design: The development of the novel OA module involved a triangular iterative process, interviewing OA patients and healthcare professionals in the field of OA, an expert panel and a literature search to identify the needs to improve OA care.