Our publications

The Long-Term Burden of COPD Exacerbations During Maintenance Therapy and Lung Function Decline.

Early identification of preventable risk factors of COPD progression is important. Whether exacerbations have a negative impact on disease...

Prevalence of Asthma Characteristics in COPD Patients in a Dutch Well-Established Asthma/COPD Service for Primary Care.

Primary care COPD guidelines indicate that COPD patients with asthma characteristics should be treated as having asthma. This study aims to describe...

Drug Burden Index and Cognitive and Physical Function in Aged Care Residents: A Longitudinal Study.

Anticholinergic/antimuscarinic and sedative medications (eg, benzodiazepines) have been found to be associated with poorer cognitive and physical...

Commentary: “Healthcare Professionals’ Preferred Efficacy Endpoints and Minimal Clinically Important Differences in the Assessment of New Medicines for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease” by Dankers M et al. in 2020; 10: 1519.

Adequacy of Therapy for People with Both COPD and Heart Failure in the UK: Historical Cohort Study.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and heart failure (HF) often occur concomitantly, presenting diagnostic and therapeutic challenges for...

Improving primary care management of asthma: do we know what really works?

Asthma imposes a substantial burden on individuals and societies. Patients with asthma need high-quality primary care management; however, evidence...

Association between COPD exacerbations and lung function decline during maintenance therapy.

Little is known about the impact of exacerbations on COPD progression or whether inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) use and blood eosinophil count (BEC)...

Quality of spirometry and related diagnosis in primary care with a focus on clinical use.

American and European societies' (ATS/ERS) criteria for spirometry are often not met in primary care. Yet, it is unknown if quality is sufficient for...

Likely questionnaire-diagnosed food allergy in 78, 890 adults from the northern Netherlands.

It is challenging to define likely food allergy (FA) in large populations which limited the number of large studies regarding risk factors for FA.

ERS International Congress, Madrid, 2019: highlights from the General Pneumology Assembly.

This article contains highlights and a selection of the scientific advances from the European Respiratory Society's General Pneumology Assembly that...

Daytime symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a systematic review.

There is no single source of compiled data on symptoms experienced by patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) when awake and...

Factors associated with workarounds in barcode-assisted medication administration in hospitals.

To identify that workarounds (defined as "informal temporary practices for handling exceptions to normal procedures or workflow") by nurses using...