Experiences of Dutch Midwives Regarding the Quality of Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

This study assessed how the quality of care during the COVID-19 pandemic has been experienced by Dutch midwives. At the beginning of May 2020, 15 Dutch midwives were interviewed during the first wave of the pandemic. The interviews included questions based on the value-based healthcare framework by Porter.

User Experience of a Chatbot Questionnaire Versus a Regular Computer Questionnaire: Prospective Comparative Study.

Background: Respondent engagement of questionnaires in health care is fundamental to ensure adequate response rates for the evaluation of services and quality of care. Conventional survey designs are often perceived as dull and unengaging, resulting in negative respondent behavior. It is necessary to make completing a questionnaire attractive and motivating.

Barbed channels enhance unidirectional connectivity between neuronal networks cultured on multi electrode arrays.

Cultured neurons on multi electrode arrays (MEAs) have been widely used to study various aspects of neuronal (network) functioning. A possible drawback of this approach is the lack of structure in these networks. At the single cell level, several solutions have been proposed to enable directed connectivity, and promising results were obtained.

Classification of motor imagery performance in acute stroke.

Objective: Effective motor imagery performance, seen as strong suppression of the sensorimotor rhythm, is the key element in motor imagery therapy. Therefore, optimization of methods to classify whether the subject is performing the imagery task is a prerequisite. An optimal classification method should have high performance accuracy and use a small number of channels.

Temporal evolution of event-related desynchronization in acute stroke: a pilot study.

Objective: Assessment of event-related desynchronization (ERD) may assist in predicting recovery from stroke and rehabilitation, for instance in BCI applications. Here, we explore the temporal evolution of ERD during stroke recovery.

Methods: Ten stroke patients and eleven healthy controls were recruited to participate in a hand movement task while EEG was being recorded.