Publications by authors named "S A Nijman"
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- The study investigates how well clinicians accept real-time data imputation to address missing patient data in a clinical decision support system (CDSS) designed for assessing cardiovascular risk.
- Seventeen clinicians evaluated a CDSS using a method called joint modelling imputation (JMI), assessing vignettes that simulated situations with missing data and provided different risk estimates.
- Although the study found JMI useful for educational purposes, clinicians felt uncomfortable with the reliability of imputed predictions, indicating a need for more accurate data imputation for effective use in clinical practice.
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- A study was conducted to compare two strategies for diagnosing interstitial lung disease (ILD): a step-up approach using transbronchial cryobiopsy followed by surgical lung biopsy (SLB) if needed, versus starting with immediate SLB.
- The COLD study included 55 patients across six hospitals in the Netherlands and measured outcomes like unexpected chest tube drainage, diagnostic yield, and adverse events over a 12-week follow-up.
- Findings showed that 11% of patients in the step-up group required unexpected chest tube drainage, indicating varying risks and benefits between the two biopsy methods.
Meta-analyses have found that social cognition training (SCT) has large effects on the emotion recognition ability of people with a psychotic disorder. Virtual reality (VR) could be a promising tool for delivering SCT. Presently, it is unknown how improvements in emotion recognition develop during (VR-)SCT, which factors impact improvement, and how improvements in VR relate to improvement outside VR.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVR-SOAP, a modular virtual reality treatment for improving social activities and participation of young people with psychosis: a study protocol for a single-blind multi-centre randomized controlled trial.
Ivo Alexander Meins Dauw Catharina Muijsson-Bouwman Saskia Anne Nijman Kirstin Greaves-Lord Wim Veling
Trials
April 2023
Article Synopsis
- Young people with psychotic disorders want to socialize like their peers but face barriers, including smaller networks and lower success in education and work, which current treatments don't fully address.
- A study is being conducted with 116 participants to assess the effectiveness of a new virtual reality treatment (VR-SOAP) compared to a control program (VRelax) over 14 sessions, focusing on improving social functioning.
- If successful, VR-SOAP could give therapists a valuable tool to enhance the social lives of young adults with these disorders.