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A 'short walk' is longer before radiotherapy than afterwards: a qualitative study questioning the baseline and follow-up designElsbeth F Taminiau-Bloem
Department of Medical Psychology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Health Qual Life Outcomes 8:69. 2010....
Methods to detect response shift in quality of life data: a convergent validity studyMechteld R M Visser
Department of Medical Psychology, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Qual Life Res 14:629-39. 2005..The convergent results of thentest and SEM support their validity, especially because they use statistically independent operationalizations of response shift. In this study, recall bias did not invalidate thentest results...- Stress, satisfaction and burnout among Dutch medical specialistsMechteld R M Visser
Department of Medical Psychology, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
CMAJ 168:271-5. 2003..In this study we investigated (a) levels of job stress and job satisfaction among medical specialists, (b) factors contributing to stress and satisfaction and (c) the effect of stress and satisfaction on burnout... - Fatigue, depression and quality of life in cancer patients: how are they related?M R Visser
Department of Medical Psychology, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Support Care Cancer 6:101-8. 1998..Fatigue is not a valid criterion for depression in these patients. Nor is there a strong cause-and-effect relationship. Both depression and physical fatigue are relevant to patients' quality of life... - Understanding the level of fatigue in cancer patients undergoing radiotherapyE M Smets
Department of Medical Psychology, Academic Medical Center University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Psychosom Res 45:277-93. 1998..Factors that contribute to the patient's physical condition before starting radiotherapy and to his/her perception of burden need to be addressed to further our understanding of their fatigue... - Fatigue and radiotherapy: (B) experience in patients 9 months following treatmentE M Smets
Department of Medical Psychology, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Br J Cancer 78:907-12. 1998..The significant associations between fatigue and both psychological and physical variables demonstrate the complex aetiology of this symptom in patients and point out the necessity of a multidisciplinary approach for its treatment... - The Roter Interaction Analysis System (RIAS) in oncological consultations: psychometric propertiesL M Ong
Academic Medical Center, Department of Medical Psychology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Psychooncology 7:387-401. 1998..To conclude, the psychometric properties of the RIAS are satisfactory in an oncological setting... - Cancer patients' coping styles and doctor-patient communicationL M Ong
Department of Medical Psychology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Psychooncology 8:155-66. 1999..Also, cancer patients' coping styles are not related to other personal and disease characteristics. Further, a monitoring style seems to have an impact on patients' question-asking and dominance during the oncological consultation... - Effect of providing cancer patients with the audiotaped initial consultation on satisfaction, recall, and quality of life: a randomized, double-blind studyL M Ong
Department of Medical Psychology, Department of Obstetrics Gynaecology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Clin Oncol 18:3052-60. 2000..By means of a randomized double-blind study, the effect of providing taped initial consultations on cancer patients' satisfaction, recall, and quality of life was investigated... - Revealing response shift in longitudinal research on fatigue--the use of the thentest approachM A Sprangers
Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Acta Oncol 38:709-18. 1999..Since response shift may adversely affect the results of self-reported outcomes in clinical trials or other longitudinal research, further research is very much needed... - Doctor-patient communication and cancer patients' quality of life and satisfactionL M Ong
Academic Medical Center, Department of Medical Psychology J4 408, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Patient Educ Couns 41:145-56. 2000..The affective quality of the consultation seems to be the most important factor in determining these outcomes... - Fatigue and radiotherapy: (A) experience in patients undergoing treatmentE M Smets
Department of Medical Psychology, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Br J Cancer 78:899-906. 1998..Fatigue in disease-free patients 9 months after treatment is described in paper (B) in this issue... - Hirschsprung's disease: healthcare meets the needsEsther E Hartman
Paediatric Surgical Centre of Amsterdam, Emma Children s Hospital AMC, VUMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Pediatr Surg 41:1420-4. 2006.... - Quality of life in newly diagnosed cancer patients waiting for surgery is seriously impairedMechteld R M Visser
Department of Medical Psychology, Academic Medical Centre, Meibergdreef 15, 1105AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Surg Oncol 93:571-7. 2006..It is recommended to keep the waiting period brief. In addition, suggestions are offered by which physicians might help their patients in alleviating the distress... - Anorectal malformations: does healthcare meet the needs?Esther E Hartman
Pediatric Surgical Centre of Amsterdam Emma Children s Hospital, Academic Medical Centre University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 41:210-5. 2005..The second aim was to evaluate specific areas in the healthcare system, including provided information, transfer from pediatric to adult care, and satisfaction with the provided care... - An application of structural equation modeling to detect response shifts and true change in quality of life data from cancer patients undergoing invasive surgeryFrans J Oort
Department of Medical Psychology, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Qual Life Res 14:599-609. 2005..The structural equation modeling approach was found to be useful in detecting response shift effects. The extent to which the procedure is guided by subjective decisions is discussed... - Sex differences in physician burnout in the United States and The NetherlandsMark Linzer
Department of Medical Psychology, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam
J Am Med Womens Assoc 57:191-3. 2002..to determine if there are sex differences in physician burnout in the Netherlands and, if not, to explore why they are present in the United States... - Quality of life after colon interposition by necessity for esophageal cancer replacementHuib A Cense
Department of Surgery, Academic Medical Center at the University of Amsterdam, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Surg Oncol 88:32-38. 2004..Even long after the operation they have a broad spectrum of persisting symptoms. Prior to surgery, patients should be informed about the disabling long-term functional outcome of a colon interposition... - The need for a prophylactic gastrojejunostomy for unresectable periampullary cancer: a prospective randomized multicenter trial with special focus on assessment of quality of lifeN Tjarda Van Heek
Department of Surgery, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ann Surg 238:894-902; discussion 902-5. 2003..Therefore, the trial was stopped earlier than planned...