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List of PhD defenses

- Jos IJspeert | Rehabilitation after neuralgic amyotrophy: Finding a path to self-management
  - Thesis
  - Video
- Marjolein Thijssen | Mechanisms of Dementia Friendly Initiatives; Realist Insights into Initiative’s Outcomes, Collaboration and Stakeholder Involvement
  - Thesis
  - Video
- Daniëlle Kroon | Savings, scaling and sustainability: increasing the impact of de-implementation strategies
  - Proefschrift
- Ivy Beeren | Quality of life and prognosis of patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer: Does lifestyle play a role?
  - Proefschrift
  - Video
- Tom Ebbers | Implementing the head and neck oncology e-pathway with structured and standardized documentation - Improving quality and efficiency using the electronic health record
  - Thesis
  - Video
- Bart Bloemen | Assessing what matters: the role of normative commitments in Health Technology Assessment
  - Thesis
  - Video
- Julia van Kraaij | Don’t Fix the Nurse, Fix the System. Rethinking nursing work environments for enduring improvements
  - Thesis
  - Publieksversie Proefschrift
  - Video
- Esther Deuning-Smit | Off the shelf: Toward implementation of an evidence-based psychological intervention for fear of cancer recurrence
  - Thesis
- Stefan Auener | Reducing Healthcare Use and Costs in Patients With Heart Failure Through Telemonitoring: A Complex Journey
  - Thesis
  - Video
- Erik Wackers | The limited effect of redesigning healthcare delivery models on costs: a study of real-world cases in the Netherlands
  - Thesis
  - Video
- Cilla Vrinzen | Sustainable Cancer Care: Enhancing Value and Managing Costs
  - Thesis
  - Video
- Cecile van de Weerd | Optimizing head and neck cancer follow-up - A personalized approach
  - Thesis
- Emmy Muller-Sloof | Surgical Wound Dehiscence Diagnosis and Prevention. Closing the Gap
  - Thesis
- Jasper Hof | Genetic risk of multiple recurrences of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer
  - Thesis
- Asma Chaabouni | The epidemiology of symptom diagnoses in general practice
  - Thesis
- Herjan van der Steeg | Anorectal malformations from a European perspective: the experience of the ARM-Net consortium
  - Thesis
- Karin Felten-Barentsz | Innovating physiotherapy practice for patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit and their relatives
  - Thesis
  - Video
- Hester Stoorvogel | Quality of outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy: from antimicrobial choice to patient follow-up
  - Thesis
  - Video
- Wieteke van Dijk | Treatment decisions in Dutch sciatica care and the relevance of medicalization for health policy making
  - Thesis
- Gerda van den Berg | Nurses for food - Promoting patient participation in malnutrition care
  - Thesis
  - Video
- Jeltje Giesen | The journey towards facilitating an evidence-based quality improvement learning culture
  - Thesis
  - Video
- Gijs Lemmers A search for guidance in the multifaceted problem of low back pain
  - Thesis
  - Video
- Margriet van Dijk | MOVEMENT QUALITY UNDER THE MAGNIFYING GLASS: Development and validation of a standardized observational assessment in patients with low back pain
  - Thesis
  - Video
- Joris Müskens | The challenges and oportunities of assessing low-value care provision in the Netherlands
- - Thesis
  - Video
- Toine Remers | Enhancing streamlining and affordability of care for patients with multimorbidity
- - Thesis
  - Video
- Ward Heij | Coach2Move: Implementation and Evaluation of Person-centered Physical therapy for Older adults
  - Thesis
  - Video
- Anja Haenen | Compliance with HAnd hygiene in Nursing homes; Go for a sustainable Effect (CHANGE): The implementation of a tailored multifaceted intervention strategy to improve hand hygiene in nursing homes
  - Thesis
  - Video
- Lotte Firet | EHealth for Women with Stress Urinary Incontinence: Lessons Learned for Healthcare
  - Thesis
  - Video
- Rudi Steenbruggen | Quality improvement of hospital-based physiotherapy
  - Proefschrift
  - Video
- Hans Kerstens | Smoothening the waves of spasticity: the value of personalized monitoring. Aiming for neap tide by using a monitoring approach
  - Proefschrift
  - Video
- Ellen Marie Sparidaens | Improving patient: Centered information provision in fertility care
  - Proefschrift
  - Video
- Edith Nobels-Janssen | Outcome measures in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: from a clinician-directed approach towards a patient-centered approach
  - Proefschrift
  - Video
- Marielle Olthof-Nefkens | Speech language therapy to facilitate communication between persons with dementia and their loved ones
  - Proefschrift
  - Video
- Sandra Janssen | Tailored decision making with patients suffering from open wounds The impact of negative pressure wound therapy on the quality of life of patients with wounds
  - Proefschrift
  - Video
- Jordache Ramjith | Flexible time-to-event models for complex infectious disease data
  - Proefschrift
  - Video
- Elise van Belle | Person-Centered Fundamental Care Exploring Patient Participation in Hospital
  - Proefschrift
  - Video
- Ester Rake | Personal Perspective Elicitation: room for more curiosity
  - Proefschrift
  - Video
- Joana dos Santos Boita | Beautiful does not mean better: Clinically-relevant assessment of mammographic image quality
  - Proefschrift
  - Video
- Britt Myren | A voice at the table Patient participation at the morbidity and morality meeting
  - Proefschrift
  - Video
- Sander in 't Groen | Solitary Funtioning Kidney
  - Proefschrift
  - Video
- Wendy Kemper-Koebrugge | Improving the functioning of care networks of homedwelling older adult
  - Proefschrift
  - Video
- Anne van Tuijl | Teaching quality improvement to healthcare professionals: a continuous learning journey
  - Proefschrift
  - Video
- Yvette Emond | Improving perioperative care The impementation of the national perioperative safety guidelines
  - Proefschrift
  - Video
- Marscha Engelen | Self-Management Support for patients with Chronic Conditions Evaluation of content, effectiveness and usability
  - Proefschrift
  - Video
- Koen Verburg | The proof of the pudding Using outcome-based quality indicators in physical therapy
  - Proefschrift
  - Video
- Julie Swillens | Implementation of digital pathology applications: Toward standardization in clinical practice
- Marieke Lindenschot | Measuring the quality of performance of meaningful activities in children with a mitochondrial disorder
  - Proefschrift
  - Video
- Harm van Noort | Nutritional nursing care for patients undergoing surgery – a personalized approach
  - Proefschrift
  - Video
- Silvio van den Heuvel | Searching for order in disorder: Self-management education for persons with bipolar disorders and their informal caregivers
  - Proefschrift
- Charlotte Ijsbrandy | Implementing physical cancer rehabilitation
  - Proefschrift
- Annelie Monnier | What is responsible antibiotic use?
  - Proefschrift
- Florien Kruse | Healthcare provision: Open for business?
  - Proefschrift
  - Video
- Marieke Spijk - de Jonge | Patient-centered and disease activity based management of Rheumatoid Arthritis
  - Proefschrift
- Wieland Müskens | Implementing innovations in rheumatic care. Results from introducing a biosimilar and an eHealth application in daily clinical practice.
  - Proefschrift
- Luc Hagenaar | Reducing paper and sugar for fiscally sustainable healthcare systems Studies on administrative costs and junk food tax policies
  - Proefschrift
  - Video
- Marvin Berrevoets | Antimicrobial Stewardship Appropriate Antibiotic Care from the Patients’ and Professionals’ Perspective
  - Proefschrift
- Femke Driehuis | Manual physiotherapy diagnosis and treatment in infants: a cry for help
- Floris Vlaanderen | Towards seamless and sustainable care for Parkinson’s disease
  - Proefschrift
  - Video
- Eva Verkerk | Less is more reducing low-value healthcare in the Netherlands
  - Proefschrift
  - Video
- Wytske Geense | The impast of critical illness: Long-term physical, mental and cognitive health problems in ICU survivors
  - Proefschrift
  - Video
- Noortje Koolen | The COPDnet integrated care model: a newly developed and effective care pathway for patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
  - Proefschrift
- Esther Kuipers | Pharmaceutical care in obstructive lung diseases: current and future practice
  - Proefschrift
- Sinta Kristanti | Caregivers for palliative care in Indonesia (CAPtAIN). Impact of caregiving on family caregivers of patients with cancer in Indonesia
  - Proefschrift
- Anita Heideveld-Chevalking | Identifying perioperative patient safety risks. Towards prospective measurement
  - Proefschrift
- Lieke Dekkers | The art of observing the moving child
  - Proefschrift
- Christiaan Schakel | Fiscal rules for health, a guide and not a jailer?
  - Proefschrift
- Yvonne de Man | Medical Practice Variation. Exploring patterns in care use of chronically ill patients in the Netherlands
  - Proefschrift
- Babette Rump | Responsible care in times of antimicrobial resistance – caring for the carrier
  - Proefschrift
- Anne Wichmann | Pin pin korori: Efficiency of palliative care delivery throughout Europe on a macro, meso and micro level
  - Proefschrift
- Peter Vink | Through The Eyes Of Neuroscience Nurses
  - Proefschrift
- Lieke Dekkers | The art of observing the moving child
  - Proefschrift
- Bram Tilburgs | Advance care planning in dementia; Development and evaluation of an educational intervention in primary care.
  - Proefschrift
- Rachel Forcino | Patient-Reported Measurement of Shared Decision-Making
  - Proefschrift
- Retze Achttien | Exercise as medicine in cardiovascular health. Recommendations for physiotherapeutic cardiac rehabilitation and determinants of physical inactivity
  - Proefschrift
- Femke Lamers-Karnebeek | Arthritis flare after stopping TNF inhibitor in RA: frequency, predictability and radiography
  - Proefschrift
- Nina Zipfel | Beyond Value-Based Health Care. How to use outcome measurement to improve quality of care in heart care?
  - Proefschrift
- Niek Stadhouders | Effective Healthcare cost containment policies, using the Netherlands as a case study
  - Proefschrift
- Peter Scalia | Encounter-based patient decision aids. Implementation experiences and effects across online and real-world contexts
  - Proefschrift
- Fritz Frauenfelder | Participatory Psychiatric adult inpatient nursing described in the NANDA-I and NIC. A systematic evaluation of nursing classifications
  - Proefschrift
- Inger Abma | Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in clinical practice for patients with obstructive sleep apnea
  - Proefschrift
- Martijn Rutten | The collaboration between general practitioner cooperatives and emergency departments
  - Proefschrift
- Karin Hekkert | Hospital readmissions. Just a number or a stepping stone to quality improvement?
  - Proefschrift
- Marleen Lovink | The impact and organization of skill mix change in healthcare for older people: Substituting physicians with nurse practitioners, physician assistants or nurses
  - Proefschrift
- Elena Mariani LET ME PARTICIPATE. Using shared decision-making to involve persons with dementia in care planning in long-term care.
  - Proefschrift
- Rixt Zuidema | Participatory development and evaluation of an online self-management enhancing program for patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
  - Proefschrift
- Marjo Maas | Say what you think, show what you do. Wat is nodig om goede feedback te krijgen en doelgericht te werken aan kwaliteit van fysiotherapie?
  - Proefschrift
- Ellen Keizer | Use of out-of-hours primary care. Understanding and influencing patients’ help-seeking
  - Proefschrift
- Jan-Willem Weenink | Back on track. Addressing Poor Performance of Healthcare Professionals
  - Proefschrift
- Laura Kienhorst | Gout. Diagnosis and its association with cardiovascular diseases
  - Proefschrift
- Lydia van Overveld | Quality of care in head and neck oncology Development of a nationwide instrument
  - Proefschrift
- Evelien Belfroid | Defining quality in outbreak management: a perspective from the first responders
  - Proefschrift
- Hanna Donkers | Social participation dilemmas in dementia
  - Proefschrift
- Neeltje Vermunt | Collaborative goal setting. Towards a goal-oriented approach of shared decision-making in complex elderly care
  - Proefschrift
- Tim Schoenmakers | Improving insight in the quality of community pharmacy services: adding patient-reported outcome measures to classic dispensing indicators
  - Proefschrift
- Gooske Douw | Just worry: Exploring triggers used by nurses to identify surgical patients at risk for clinical deterioration
  - Proefschrift
- Joost Wammes | High-cost patients and opportunities to reduce unnecessary spending
  - Proefschrift
- Mirelle Hanskamp | Improving patient safety in hospital care: the implementation of internal audits
  - Proefschrift
- Janine Hidding | Arm and shoulder function in breast cancer. Impact of medical treatment
  - Proefschrift
- Jan Koetsenruijter | Social support networks of diabetes patients
  - Proefschrift
- Nathalie Eikelenboom | Personalised self-management support in primary care: one size does not fit all
  - Proefschrift
- Nelleke van Sluisveld | The ICU discharge process Making the connection between ICU and ward
  - Proefschrift
- Elke Huntink | Development and evaluation of a tailored implementation programme for cardiovascular risk management in general practice
  - Proefschrift
- Lianne Remijn | Mastication in children with cerebral Palsy
  - Proefschrift
- Inge Hommel | Improving perioperative diabetes care
  - Proefschrift
- Marijke Timmermans | The impact of the involvement of physician assistants in inpatient care
  - Proefschrift
- Mieke van der Biezen | The impact of nurse practitioners in primary care
  - Proefschrift
- Marjolein Helleman | Brief admission for patients with BPD: development of a self-management intervention to prevent or overcome crisis
  - Proefschrift
- Naomi Heijmans | Social networks of patients and health care providers in cardiovascular risk management
  - Proefschrift
- Gerdien Franx | Quality improvement in mental healthcare. The transfer of knowledge into practice
  - Proefschrift
- Amar Voogt | Providing Structure unraveling and building a psychiatric nursing intervention
  - Proefschrift
- Irene Faber | Diamonds in the rough. Searching for high potential in youth table tennis players
  - Proefschrift
- Tessa van Loenen | Organization of primary care; Impact on avoidable secondary care
  - Proefschrift
- Marijke Noome | End-of-life care in the ICU. The role and responsibilities of ICU nurses
  - Proefschrift
- Irene van de Glind | Making the connection. Implementing lifestyle interventions in healthcare
  - Proefschrift
- Simone van Dulmen | Watch and learn: monitoring and reflection to improve the quality of physical therapy care
  - Proefschrift
- Mallory Woiski | Quality of postpartum hemorrhage care. The need for standardization
  - Proefschrift
- Myrna Keurhorst | Prevention of risky alcohol consumption in primary health care. Do professionals care?
  - Proefschrift
- Willemijn Eppenga | Personalized drug therapy management in patients with renal impairment
  - Proefschrift
- Ingrid Sturkenboom | Occupational therapy for people with Parkinson's disease: towards evidence-informed care
  - Proefschrift
- Nienke de Vries | Managing the decline: physical therapy in frail elderly
  - Proefschrift
- Carola Döpp | Making the jump-The translation of research evidence into clinical occupational therapy practice
  - Proefschrift
- Linda Kronenberg | Dealing with SUD and co-occuring AHDH or ASD. A study to inform better care for patients and caregivers
  - Proefschrift
- Nathan Hutting | Effectiveness of a self-management program for employees with complaints of the arm, neck and/or shoulder
  - Proefschrift
- Nicole Ketelaar | Choosing healthcare providers. Healthcare consumers' use of comparative performance information
  - Proefschrift
- Elvira Nouwens | Practice accreditation to improve cardiovascular risk management in general practice
  - Proefschrift
- Christantie Effendy | The quality of palliative care for patients with cancer in Indonesia
  - Proefschrift
- Ka-Chun Cheung| Learning from medication errors through a nationwide reporting programme
  - Proefschrift
- Margreet Warlé-van Herwaarden | Clinical risk management of drug-related hospital admissions: strategies for their identification, reduction and monitoring
  - Proefschrift
- Arna van Doorn-Klomberg | Practice accreditation in general practice. Measurement validation and impact on chronic care management
  - Proefschrift
- Remco Ebben | IN CASE OF EMERGENCY. Exploring guideline adherence in the chain of emergency care
  - Proefschrift
- S. Rongen-van Dartel | Physical activity and fatigue in rheumatoid arthritis: a vicious circle?
  - Proefschrift
- Nienke te Boveldt | Patient empowerment by interactive cancer pain management. Bridging the gap between patient and caregiver
  - Proefschrift

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PhD defense Gerda van den Berg

Nurses for food - Promoting patient participation in malnutrition care

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PhD defense Jeltje Giesen

Improve fundamental nursing care! The journey towards facilitating an evidence-based quality improvement learning culture

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PhD defense Karin Felten-Barentsz

Innovating physiotherapy practice for patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit and their relatives

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- Janneke Grutters | Explore in Uncertainty
  - video
  - Inaugural lecture
- Gert Jan van der Wilt | Facts and values
  - video
  - Valedictory lecture
- Tijn Kool | Hoe passend is onze zorg? (How appropriate is our care?)
  - Video.
- Rosella Hermens | Kankerzorg in netwerken; persoonsgericht graag! (Cancer care in networks; person-centered please!)
  - Video
- Marianne Boenink | Zorgen voor morgen. Over ethiek, technologie en vooruitdenkende gezondheidszorg (Caring for Tomorrow. On ethics, technology and forward-thinking health care)
  - Video
- Hester Vermeulen | Beter laten, beter maken, beter doen (Better leave, better make, better do)
  - Video
- Patrick Jeurissen | Steeds meer zorg, een betaalbare oplossing? (More and more care, an affordable solution?)
  - Video