This thesis aims to contribute to the evolution toward a medical education continuum from student to specialist and increases the understanding of competency-based medical education and entrustable professional activities ...

Advance care planning (ACP) is a strategy to identify, discuss and document goals and preferences for future care and treatment. In the care for children with life-limiting conditions, timely conversations about goals and ...

Background and purpose: In the eye-socket and around the eye (orbit), several diseased can occur. Two important diseases, non-Hodgkin orbital lymphoma (NHOL) and idiopathic orbital inflammation (IOI) can be difficult to ...

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) presents challenges to effective measurement and control, including the frequently asymptomatic or nonspecific nature of initial HIV infection, slow disease progression, life-long infection, ...

Healthcare is a highly complex force field: on the one hand, the actors involved see it as their shared responsibility to keep it accessible to patients and citizens. On the other hand, the interests of these actors do not ...

The studies in this dissertation aim to reduce stroke incidence by improving prevention strategies for atrial fibrillation (AF) and carotid stenosis-related ischaemic strokes. AF and carotid stenosis are usually clinically ...

Chapter 1 introduces the thesis. Chapter 2 evaluates knowledge and skills of antenatal care providers and the capacity of the health system to detect and manage HDP in Nigeria. All domains of quality except provider ...