Return to work and health-related quality of life up to 1 year in patients hospitalized for COVID-19: the CO-FLOW study.

Background: Currently, evidence about the long-term consequences of COVID-19 on return to work and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is limited. We evaluated return to work and its associations with baseline characteristics and physical and mental recovery over time in patients up to 1 year after hospitalization for COVID-19. Secondly, we aimed to evaluate the association between return to work and health-related quality of life (HRQoL).

Functional Disability in Adolescents with Chronic Pain: Comparing an Interdisciplinary Exposure Program to Usual Care.

(1) Background: Chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP) in adolescents can negatively affect physical, psychological, and social functioning, resulting in functional disability. This randomized controlled trial (RCT) aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of an outpatient rehabilitation program based on graded exposure in vivo (EP) compared with care as usual (CAU: interdisciplinary outpatient rehabilitation care). Both EP and CAU aim to improve functional ability in adolescents with CMP.

Multidisciplinary Treatment for Adolescents with Chronic Pain and/or Fatigue: Who Will Benefit?

Purpose: The aims of this study were, first, to determine the percentage of adolescents with chronic pain/fatigue successfully treated with rehabilitation treatment for chronic pain/fatigue and, second, to identify predictors for a successful rehabilitation treatment.

Methods: Treatment success is scored based on a combination of predefined clinically relevant changes in 4 outcome measures: level of pain/fatigue, school absence, physical functioning, and psychosocial functioning. A forward stepwise logistic regression analysis with treatment success as a dependent variable is performed to identify predictors for successful treatment.

Dutch Dataset Pain Rehabilitation in daily practice: Content, patient characteristics and reference data.

Background: No core set of measurement tools exists to collect data within clinical practice. Such data could be useful as reference data to guide treatment decisions and to compare patient characteristics or treatment results within specific treatment settings.

Methods: The Dutch Dataset Pain Rehabilitation was developed which included the six domains of the IMMPACT core set and three new domains relevant in the field of rehabilitation (medical consumption, patient-specific goals and activities/participation).

Social functioning in adulthood: Understanding long-term outcomes of adolescents with chronic pain/fatigue treated at inpatient rehabilitation programs.

Background: Chronic pain and fatigue are both common complaints in childhood and adolescence and often persist over time. The aim of the study was to investigate whether chronic pain/fatigue persists during adulthood and how former patients function and participate in society as adults.

Methods: This historical cohort study used questionnaires to gather the data.

Effects of a Guided Internet-Delivered Self-Help Intervention for Adolescents With Chronic Pain.

Unlabelled: Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is effective in reducing the frequency and intensity of chronic pain in adolescents. However, CBT seems not to be considered acceptable by all adolescents. The main aim of our study was therefore to evaluate the effects of guided Internet-delivered self-help for adolescents with chronic pain.

Responsiveness of the Child Health Questionnaire-Parent Form in adolescents with non-specific chronic pain or fatigue.

Background: The Child Health Questionnaire (CHQ) is a widely used instrument for measuring health-related quality of life covering both the physical and psychosocial domain. This study examined the responsiveness of the Dutch CHQ 50-item Parent Form (PF50) in a sample of adolescents with chronic non-specific pain and/or fatigue.

Method: Five different methods were used to calculate the responsiveness for the physical (PhS) and psychosocial (PsS) subscale of the CHQ-50: standardized response mean (SRM), pooled effect sizes (ESs), standard error of measurement of agreement (SEMagreement ), minimal detectable change (MDC) and the area under the receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curve.

Early signaling, referral, and treatment of adolescent chronic pain: a study protocol.

Background: Chronic pain is prevalent among young people and negatively influences their quality of life. Furthermore, chronic pain in adolescence may persist into adulthood. Therefore, it is important early on to promote the self-management skills of adolescents with chronic pain by improving signaling, referral, and treatment of these youngsters.

Outcome of atrial fibrillation ablation: assessment of success.

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia with a prevalence in the general population of approximately 1%. Catheter ablation has emerged from being a highly experimental procedure to one of the most common ablation performed in many electrophysiology laboratories throughout the world. The stability of sinus rhythm restored by catheter ablation is important not only for comparison of different ablation techniques, but also for guiding anticoagulation and possible antiarrhythmic drug treatment.

Safety of brain 3-T MR imaging with transmit-receive head coil in patients with cardiac pacemakers: pilot prospective study with 51 examinations.

Purpose: To evaluate the safety and feasibility of 3-T magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of the brain in patients with implanted cardiac pacemakers (PMs) by using a transmit-receive head coil.

Materials And Methods: The study protocol was approved by the institutional review board. Signed informed consent was obtained from all subjects.

MAAS (Multi-axial Aphasia System): realistic goal setting in aphasia rehabilitation.

Treatment success in aphasia is influenced by various factors. Clinical decisions, including patient selection and decisions on frequency and content, are often guided by a clinician's implicit opinions. The Multi-axial Aphasia System (MAAS) was developed to structure linguistic, somatic, neuropsychological, psychosocial and socio-economic information on five separate axes, enabling an explicit and interdisciplinary process of clinical decision-making.

Morphology-enhanced atrial event classification improves sensing in pacemakers.

Background: In atrial-based pacing, appropriate therapy and reliable diagnostics depend on detection and discrimination of atrial signals. Accurate classification of atrial events is mainly confounded by oversensing of ventricular far-field R-wave signals (FFRW), but attempts to reject FFRWs by manipulating atrial sensitivity and/or postventricular atrial blanking period (PVAB) may result in undersensing (especially of atrial fibrillation, AF) or in 2:1 atrial flutter detection. The objective of this study is therefore to evaluate if such methods can be improved by morphology-enhanced atrial event classification (MORPH).

Routing through the health care system and level of functioning of lower limb amputees.

Objectives: To describe the routing through the health care system and the level of functioning of a consecutive series of lower limb amputees at a general Dutch hospital.

Methods: A descriptive cohort study (medical records examination) with a follow-up interval of 11.7 months.