18 maart 2026

Improving Health Care with Clinical Prediction Models

Clinical prediction models are increasingly used to support health care decisions, helping clinicians estimate disease risk, guide treatment choices, and tailor care to individual patients. At the same time, advances in data science and artificial intelligence have led to a rapid expansion of prediction modelling research. Yet despite this growth, only a small proportion of published models ever reach clinical practice. Improving Health Care with Clinical Prediction Models – From Idea to Impact shows how you can bridge this gap. The book guides readers through the full pathway of prediction modelling in health care: from defining a meaningful clinical problem and identifying existing models to developing, validating, evaluating, and implementing prediction model–based innovations. Combining methodological guidance with real-world clinical examples, the book explains not only how to build robust prediction models but also how to ensure they become useful tools in everyday care. Written in an accessible style and requiring only a basic understanding of statistical modelling, it provides students, researchers, and clinicians with a practical roadmap for turning prediction models into innovations that are useful, usable, and used. What this book helps you do This book takes you through the complete process of clinical prediction modelling, from the first idea for a model to its implementation in health care practice. Along the way, readers learn how to: Define a meaningful clinical problem and identify where prediction models can improve health care Find and critically evaluate existing prediction models before deciding to develop a new one Handle missing data using methods such as multiple imputation Develop and validate prediction models using established regression approaches Apply advanced regression and artificial intelligence methods for clinical prediction modelling Select models with real-world impact potential and translate them into practical decision tools Evaluate the impact of prediction model–based innovations using decision modelling and empirical studies Implement prediction model–based innovations in clinical practice and new health care settings

16 november 2023

A Diary of Someone in Practice

A diary of someone in practice who applies ICF in very small steps in the existing patient file and gets experience of the reaction to this. Hospital in Belgium where Claudia is working as a physiotherapist. It is a ward with a lot of changes in the past year. We will start with our fifth head nurse. The nursing staff is a team and the paramedical team. We are separated because we have a different head. The collaboration between the paramedical team (speech therapist, physiotherapist, occupational therapist) is very good. The changes in the nursing staff were big in the last year but now things all fall into place.

2023

Introduction to clinical simulations [Lecture]

What is a clinical simulation? Methodology that offers the possibility of performing safe and controlled way a practice in a clinical setting that simulates professional reality.

6 november 2023

A Video of a Team Meeting

This video material was developed inspired by design thinking workshops between the INPRO project partners. There was a need for practical examples of ICF usage in practical settings for learning professionals or students. Link to the video material (in German, with English subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=415JX0avgxQ This 12-minute video material is intended for rehabilitation workers and students as part of their training. For example, the assignment could be given to summarise the discussed case in an ICF documentation sheet. Also, role-play of one's variations in native language could be applied, as well as being recorded for further use. This was explored by German students after visiting Moorheilbad Harbach Health and Rehabilitation Centre, where they worked on paper cases with the four actors from the presented video. Variations for team meetings could be, e.g. at rehabilitation onset, before dismissal, with the patient participating and as a family group conference.

2012

ULP Techniques

Practical information on procedures considering farm animal health care such as: calf disbudding, blood sampling techniques, IV catheter placement and clinical examination of a cow.

2 oktober 2026

Clinical Tools: A DIY catalogue for the creative

Instead of encouraging the purchasing of new technologies for medical training, this textbook, in the form of a catalogue, focuses on sharing examples of creative tools that already exist. This issue also offers a practical guide for how to make these tools, encouraging using local resources. Ever considered where your learning tools come from as you study or teach medicine? So many teaching materials in medicine are mass-produced, environmentally unfriendly, and reproduce the same kind of bodies. We need a drastic rethinking of our teaching tools. But rather than new inventions, what if the innovations we need are already out there? Our first issue of Clinical Tools: A DIY Catalogue for the Creative celebrates the abundance of ideas for teaching materials that already exist in medical education. Inside you will find gorgeous illustrations, clear instructions for how to make tools and insightful essays exploring the ideas behind DIY in medical education. Get your making supplies ready! This open textbook is designed for nursing, medical and other healthcare students and teachers across bachelor’s, undergraduate and postgraduate, master’s level, especially those enrolled in courses on clinical training. It is also relevant to other practitioners and learners working in healthcare contexts who continue to engage in educational activities. The textbook is intended to help students learn about and create their own teaching tools, whether they are working in obstetrics, surgery, or general medicine. The book supports learning by doing: students and teachers can read and adapt the instructions, use the included suggestions, and connect to what is available and relevant in their own healthcare contexts. It is also suitable for instructors seeking accessible, reusable teaching material that can be integrated into classroom teaching, assignments, and research-led education across healthcare education settings. In plaats van het aanschaffen van nieuwe technologieën voor medisch onderwijs aan te moedigen, richt dit studieboek, in de vorm van een catalogus, zich op het delen van voorbeelden van creatieve hulpmiddelen die al bestaan. Deze uitgave biedt daarnaast een praktische handleiding voor het maken van deze hulpmiddelen en stimuleert het gebruik van lokale middelen en materialen. Heb je je tijdens het leren of onderwijzen van geneeskunde ooit afgevraagd waar je leermiddelen vandaan komen? Veel onderwijsmaterialen in de geneeskunde worden op grote schaal geproduceerd, zijn belastend voor het milieu en tonen steeds weer dezelfde soorten lichamen. We moeten onze manier van denken over onderwijsmiddelen drastisch herzien. Maar in plaats van nieuwe uitvindingen te ontwikkelen: wat als de innovaties die we nodig hebben al bestaan? Ons eerste deel van Clinical Tools: A DIY Catalogue for the Creative viert de overvloed aan ideeën voor onderwijsmaterialen die al binnen het medisch onderwijs bestaan. In deze uitgave vind je prachtige illustraties, duidelijke instructies voor het maken van hulpmiddelen en inzichtelijke essays waarin de ideeën achter doe-het-zelf (DIY) in het medisch onderwijs worden verkend. Maak je materialen maar alvast klaar! Dit open studieboek is bedoeld voor studenten en docenten in de verpleegkunde, geneeskunde en andere zorgopleidingen, op bachelor-, undergraduate-, postgraduate- en masterniveau, en in het bijzonder voor degenen die onderwijs volgen of geven binnen opleidingen en cursussen gericht op klinische training. Het boek is ook relevant voor andere professionals en lerenden die werkzaam zijn in de zorg en zich blijven bezighouden met onderwijsactiviteiten. Het studieboek is bedoeld om studenten te helpen bij het leren over én het zelf ontwikkelen van onderwijshulpmiddelen, of zij nu werkzaam zijn binnen de verloskunde, chirurgie of algemene geneeskunde. Het boek ondersteunt leren door te doen: studenten en docenten kunnen de instructies lezen en aanpassen, gebruikmaken van de opgenomen suggesties en aansluiten bij wat beschikbaar en relevant is binnen hun eigen zorgcontext. Het is ook geschikt voor docenten die op zoek zijn naar toegankelijk en herbruikbaar onderwijsmateriaal dat kan worden geïntegreerd in klassikaal onderwijs, opdrachten en onderwijs dat gebaseerd is op onderzoek binnen verschillende zorgopleidingen en -contexten.

14 september 2021

Evidence based practice – op zoek naar (wetenschappelijk) bewijs

Zelfstandig te doorlopen training gericht op het vergroten van informatievaardigheden rond Evidence Based Practice. De training bestaat uit verschillende onderdelen. Ieder onderdeel bevat uitleg en soms korte kennisclips.

1 januari 2023

Applied Human Anatomy

The structure of the human body is usually considered in courses in gross anatomy. These courses typically consist of lectures by the faculty, readings in assigned textbooks and the study of photographs and illustrations in human anatomy atlases. However, as student’s progress through the curriculum and move into the more clinical or practice oriented phases, many discover that the anatomical knowledge they actually need is somewhat different from the kind they possess. What many encounter is difficulty in applying their knowledge to a clinical setting. Applied Human Anatomy was created to better integrate material that is more often than not treated separately in contemporary health care curricula. It is hoped that through this integration students will develop a deeper and more lasting knowledge and understanding of human anatomy as they are likely to need it in the evaluation and management of patients.

22 oktober 2020

Presentatie Klinisch Redeneren met OPT-model

2023

Teacher's manual for guiding a roleplay

Roleplay aims to simulate clinical tasks in an educational setting. This approach have been shown to improve students' knowledge and confidence to communicate effectively when providing health information to patients with limited health literacy. The purpose of this manual is getting familiar with the essentials of roleplay based on the specific methodology of briefing, simulation of the clinical task and debriefing. In roleplays mostly students are fulfilling the role of the patient and of the intern physiotherapist. Of course, students appreciate practicing with an unknown simulation patient or an actor because that makes the assignment more realistic. It is important to follow certain guidelines on how to instruct the people who are involved in the roleplay. There are also guidelines on how to instruct the students and the role-player/simulation patient/actor who will give feedback after the roleplay and for the teacher as well who will add feedback after the students and simulation patient did.