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Systematic review of general burden of disease studies using disability-adjusted life yearsSuzanne Polinder
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Popul Health Metr 10:21. 2012..abstract:..
Epidemiological burden of minor, major and fatal trauma in a national injury pyramidS Polinder
Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Centre, University Medical Centre Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Br J Surg 99:114-21. 2012..The aim of this study was to measure the total health impact of fatal and non-fatal unintentional injury in the Netherlands...
Systematic review and quality assessment of economic evaluation studies of injury preventionSuzanne Polinder
Erasmus Medical Center, Department of Public Health, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Accid Anal Prev 45:211-21. 2012..To review and assess the quality of economic evaluation studies on injury prevention measures...
Measuring the population burden of fatal and nonfatal injurySuzanne Polinder
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, P O Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Epidemiol Rev 34:17-31. 2012..Recommendations are given for methodological refinements to improve the validity and comparability of future burden of injury studies...
Functional treatment versus plaster for simple elbow dislocations (FuncSiE): a randomized trialJeroen de Haan
Department of Surgery Traumatology, AR Hoorn, The Netherlands
BMC Musculoskelet Disord 11:263. 2010..The primary aim of this randomized controlled trial is to compare early functional treatment versus plaster immobilization following simple dislocations of the elbow...
The measurement of long-term health-related quality of life after injury: comparison of EQ-5D and the health utilities indexSuzanne Polinder
Department of Public Health, ErasmusMC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Inj Prev 16:147-53. 2010....
Burden of injury in childhood and adolescence in 8 European countriesSuzanne Polinder
Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Centre, University Medical Centre Rotterdam, The Netherlands
BMC Public Health 10:45. 2010..We have assessed variation in the burden of injuries in childhood and adolescence in eight European countries...
Cost study of metal stent placement vs single-dose brachytherapy in the palliative treatment of oesophageal cancerS Polinder
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, PO Box 1738, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Br J Cancer 90:2067-72. 2004..Therefore, cost considerations should not play an important role in decision making on the appropriate palliative treatment strategy for patients with malignant dysphagia...
Cost-effectiveness of a mild compared with a standard strategy for IVF: a randomized comparison using cumulative term live birth as the primary endpointS Polinder
Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Center, Dr Molewaterplein 50, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Hum Reprod 23:316-23. 2008..It is unlikely, over a wide range of society's willingness-to-pay, that the standard treatment strategy is cost-effective, compared with the mild strategy...
A systematic review of studies measuring health-related quality of life of general injury populationsSuzanne Polinder
Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
BMC Public Health 10:783. 2010..We performed a systematic review of studies measuring HRQL in general injury populations with a generic health state measure to summarize existing knowledge...
Functional outcome at 2.5, 5, 9, and 24 months after injury in the NetherlandsSuzanne Polinder
Department of Public Health, ErasmusMC University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands
J Trauma 62:133-41. 2007..The collection of empirical data on the frequency, severity, and duration of functioning is a prerequisite to identify patient groups with long term or permanent disability...
Prevalence and prognostic factors of disability after childhood injurySuzanne Polinder
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC University Medical Centre Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Pediatrics 116:e810-7. 2005..To assess the prevalence and the prognostic factors of disabilities after minor and major childhood injuries and to analyze which sociodemographic and injury-related factors are predictive for suboptimal functioning in the long term...
International variation in clinical injury incidence: exploring the performance of indicators based on health care, anatomical and outcome criteriaSuzanne Polinder
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre, Ae 128, P B 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Accid Anal Prev 40:182-91. 2008..To analyse international variation in clinical injury incidence, and explore the performance of different injury indicators in cross-country comparisons...
Cost estimation of injury-related hospital admissions in 10 European countriesSuzanne Polinder
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
J Trauma 59:1283-90; discussion 1290-1. 2005..Injuries are a major cause of total health care costs. Cost estimations may help identify injuries and high risk-groups to be considered for potential intervention...
Societal consequences of falls in the older population: injuries, healthcare costs, and long-term reduced quality of lifeKlaas A Hartholt
Department of Surgery Traumatology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
J Trauma 71:748-53. 2011..The aim of this cohort study was to determine the incidence, costs, and quality of life for fall-related injuries in the older Dutch population presenting at the emergency department...
End of the spectacular decrease in fall-related mortality rate: men are catching upKlaas A Hartholt
Section of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Am J Public Health 102:S207-11. 2012..We determined time trends in numbers and rates of fall-related mortality in an aging population, for men and women...
Increase in fall-related hospitalizations in the United States, 2001-2008Klaas A Hartholt
Department of Surgery Traumatology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands k hartholt erasmusmc nl
J Trauma 71:255-8. 2011..The objective was to determine secular trends in unintentional fall-related hospitalizations in people aged 65 years and older in the United States...
How adequate are emergency department home and leisure injury surveillance systems for cross-country comparisons in Europe?Willem Jan Meerding
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Int J Inj Contr Saf Promot 17:13-22. 2010..Nevertheless, the observed variation in the healthcare utilisation and injury incidence, particularly among children and older people, indicates the potential to reduce the burden of HLI in Europe...
A mild treatment strategy for in-vitro fertilisation: a randomised non-inferiority trialEsther M E W Heijnen
Department of Reproductive Medicine and Gynaecology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, Netherlands
Lancet 369:743-9. 2007....
Beyond the neglect of psychological consequences: post-traumatic stress disorder increases the non-fatal burden of injury by more than 50%Juanita A Haagsma
Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Centre, The Netherlands
Inj Prev 17:21-6. 2011..Psychological consequences such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are currently neglected in burden-of-injury calculations...
Posttraumatic stress symptoms and health-related quality of life: a two year follow up study of injury treated at the emergency departmentJuanita A Haagsma
Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Center, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
BMC Psychiatry 12:1. 2012..This study examined the association between PTSD symptoms and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in a comprehensive population of injury patients of all severity levels and external causes...
Costs of falls in an ageing population: a nationwide study from the Netherlands (2007-2009)Klaas A Hartholt
Department of Surgery Traumatology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Injury 43:1199-203. 2012..Falls are a common mechanism of injury in the older population, putting an increasing demand on scarce healthcare resources. The objective of this study was to determine healthcare costs due to falls in the older population...
Cost comparison study of two different follow-up protocols after surgery for oesophageal cancerSuzanne Polinder
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Eur J Cancer 45:2110-5. 2009..We therefore randomised 109 patients to standard outpatient clinic follow-up by a surgeon (n=55) or home visits by a specialist nurse (n=54) and compared costs between these two strategies...
Prevalence and prognostic factors of disability after major traumaAkkie N Ringburg
Department of Surgery Traumatology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
J Trauma 70:916-22. 2011....
[Prognostic factors of disability after major trauma]Akkie N Ringburg
Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd 155:A3245. 2011..To assess the health-related quality of life and prognostic factors of disability in survivors of severe trauma one year after injury...
Prevalence rate, predictors and long-term course of probable posttraumatic stress disorder after major trauma: a prospective cohort studyJuanita A Haagsma
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, CA, The Netherlands
BMC Psychiatry 12:236. 2012..The second aim was to assess the long-term course of probable PTSD following injury...
The effect of comorbidity on health-related quality of life for injury patients in the first year following injury: comparison of three comorbidity adjustment approachesJuanita A Haagsma
Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Center, Erasmus University Rotterdam, P, O, Box 1738, 3000 CA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Popul Health Metr 9:10. 2011..abstract:..
Assessing the burden of injury in six European countriesSuzanne Polinder
Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Centre, University Medical Centre Rotterdam, Netherlands
Bull World Health Organ 85:27-34. 2007..To assess injury-related mortality, disability and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) in six European countries...
Cost-effectiveness of a long-term Internet-delivered worksite health promotion programme on physical activity and nutrition: a cluster randomized controlled trialSuzan J W Robroek
Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Center, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Health Educ Res 27:399-410. 2012..In conclusion, no additional benefits were found in effects or cost savings. Therefore, the programme in its current form cannot be recommended for implementation...
[Cost] effectiveness of withdrawal of fall-risk increasing drugs versus conservative treatment in older fallers: design of a multicenter randomized controlled trial (IMPROveFALL-study)Klaas A Hartholt
Department of Internal Medicine Section Geriatric Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Rotterdam, P, O, Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
BMC Geriatr 11:48. 2011....
The ACCOMPLISH study. A cluster randomised trial on the cost-effectiveness of a multicomponent intervention to improve hand hygiene compliance and reduce healthcare associated infectionsVicki Erasmus
Erasmus Medical Centre, Department of Public Health, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
BMC Public Health 11:721. 2011..This study aims to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of a multicomponent implementation strategy aimed at the reduction of healthcare associated infections in Dutch hospital care, by promotion of hand hygiene...
Rapid increase in hospitalizations resulting from fall-related traumatic head injury in older adults in The Netherlands 1986-2008Klaas A Hartholt
Department of Surgery Traumatology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
J Neurotrauma 28:739-44. 2011....
Individualized cost-effective conventional ovulation induction treatment in normogonadotrophic anovulatory infertility (WHO group 2)Marinus J C Eijkemans
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Hum Reprod 20:2830-7. 2005..We aimed to devise a patient-tailored, cost-effective treatment algorithm involving the above-mentioned treatment modalities, based on individual patient characteristics...
Societal discounting of health effects in cost-effectiveness analyses: the influence of life expectancySuzanne Polinder
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Pharmacoeconomics 23:791-802. 2005..Therefore, we tested the hypothesis that societal time preference for health is related to perceived future life expectancy...
Cost-effectiveness and quality-of-life analysis of physician-staffed helicopter emergency medical servicesA N Ringburg
Department of Surgery Traumatology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Br J Surg 96:1365-70. 2009..The aim of this study was to investigate the cost-effectiveness of HEMS assistance compared with emergency medical services (EMS)...
Primary hemiarthroplasty versus conservative treatment for comminuted fractures of the proximal humerus in the elderly (ProCon): a multicenter randomized controlled trialDennis den Hartog
Department of Surgery Traumatology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, P, O, Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
BMC Musculoskelet Disord 11:97. 2010..Secondary aims include effects on functional outcome, pain, complications, quality of life, and cost-effectiveness...
Capsule endoscopy for the detection of oesophageal mucosal disorders: a comparison of two different ingestion protocolsPieter J F de Jonge
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Scand J Gastroenterol 43:870-7. 2008..To assess the accuracy of a new ingestion protocol for capsule endoscopy (CE) in evaluating patients with gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD)...
Cost comparison of gastrojejunostomy versus duodenal stent placement for malignant gastric outlet obstructionS M Jeurnink
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, s Gravendijkwal 230, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
J Gastroenterol 45:537-43. 2010..As health economic aspects have only been studied in general terms, we estimated the cost of GJJ and that of stent placement in such patients...
Outcome and medical costs of patients with invasive aspergillosis and acute myelogenous leukemia-myelodysplastic syndrome treated with intensive chemotherapy: an observational studyLennert Slobbe
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Clin Infect Dis 47:1507-12. 2008..Management of IA is expensive, which makes prevention desirable. Because hospital resources are limited, prevention costs have to be compared with treatment costs and outcome...
Surgical gastrojejunostomy or endoscopic stent placement for the palliation of malignant gastric outlet obstruction (SUSTENT study): a multicenter randomized trialSuzanne M Jeurnink
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Gastrointest Endosc 71:490-9. 2010..Both gastrojejunostomy (GJJ) and stent placement are commonly used palliative treatments of obstructive symptoms caused by malignant gastric outlet obstruction (GOO)...
Nurse-led follow-up of patients after oesophageal or gastric cardia cancer surgery: a randomised trialE M L Verschuur
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus MC University Medical Centre Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Br J Cancer 100:70-6. 2009..This type of care is very likely to be more cost effective than physician-led follow-up...
Alternative approaches to derive disability weights in injuries: do they make a difference?Juanita A Haagsma
Institute for Health Policy and Management, Erasmus Medical Center, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Qual Life Res 18:657-65. 2009....
Novel empirical disability weights to assess the burden of non-fatal injuryJ A Haagsma
Department of Social Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Inj Prev 14:5-10. 2008..The original global burden of disease approach to deriving disability weights ignores temporary consequences of injury...
Methodological issues in comparing injury incidence across countriesR A Lyons
Centre for Health Improvement through Research and Evaluation CHIRAL, The School of Medicine, University of Wales Swansea, UK
Int J Inj Contr Saf Promot 13:63-70. 2006..These methodological considerations and developments will be further refined and tested and should prove useful tools for those who need to compare injury incidence data across countries...
