Birgit A. Damoiseaux-Volman

Amsterdam University Medical Center | VUmc

Purpose: Personal continuity between patient and physician is a core value of primary care. Although previous studies suggest that personal continuity is associated with fewer potentially inappropriate prescriptions, evidence on continuity and prescribing in primary care is scarce. We aimed to determine the association between personal continuity...

Objective: Fall prevention is important in many hospitals. Current fall-risk-screening tools have limited predictive accuracy specifically for older inpatients. Their administration can be time-consuming. A reliable and easy-to-administer tool is desirable to identify older inpatients at higher fall risk. We aimed to develop and internally validat...

PurposeFall prevention is a safety goal in many hospitals. The performance of the Johns Hopkins Fall Risk Assessment Tool (JHFRAT) in older inpatients is largely unknown. We aimed to assess the JHFRAT performance in a large sample of Dutch older inpatients, including its trend over time.Methods We used an Electronic Health Records (EHR) dataset wit...

The aim of this scoping review is to summarize approaches and outcomes of clinical validation studies of clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) to support (part of) a medication review. A literature search was conducted in Embase and Medline. In total, 30 articles validating a CDSS were ultimately included. Most of the studies focused on detecti...

Objective to investigate the effect of potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) on inpatient falls and to identify whether PIMs as defined by STOPPFall or the designated section K for falls of STOPP v2 have a stronger association with inpatient falls when compared to the general tool STOPP v2. Methods a retrospective observational matching stu...

Background Falls and delirium are common complications in older inpatients. Implementation of fall and delirium guidelines is complex and may be facilitated by Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSSs). Our study aimed to understand the differences between guidelines (work-as-imagined) and actual care (work-as-done) and how these can impact the des...

Background Clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) form an implementation strategy that can facilitate and support health care professionals in the care of older hospitalized patients. Objective Our study aims to systematically review the effects of CDSS interventions in older hospitalized patients. As a secondary aim, we aim to summarize the im...

Purpose To investigate prevalence, independent associations, and variation over time of potentially inappropriate prescriptions in a population of older hospitalized patients. Methods A longitudinal study using a large dataset of hospital admissions of older patients (≥ 70 years) based on an electronic health records cohort including data from 201...

BACKGROUND Clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) form an implementation strategy that can facilitate and support health care professionals in the care of older hospitalized patients. OBJECTIVE Our study aims to systematically review the effects of CDSS interventions in older hospitalized patients. As a secondary aim, we aim to summarize the im...

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OBJECTIVE: To compare community pharmacy medication records that are obtained by fax or downloaded through two different Ozis applications (electronic exchange of medication-related information through open source information systems using an Euroned link or a Microbais link). DESIGN AND METHODS: An observational study was conducted in January-Febr...