The complications of surgical treatment for lumbar disc herniation (LDH) are important to
know, but hard to measure because of their low incidence and varied pattern. Using data from …

OBJECTIVE: To examine the feasibility of using information from the Dutch Municipal
Population Register (Dutch acronym: GBA) to anonymously track groups of patients. DESIGN: …

Methods: New cases of first AMi in the dutch population in 2000 were identified through linkage
of the national hospital discharge register, the population register and the cause of death …

The value of computed tomography (CT) and myelography as single investigations in the
diagnostic evaluation of patients with radiating leg pain probably due to lumbar disk herniation (…

Despite the large number of reports on the relative usefulness of various radiographic
procedures for the diagnosis of lumbar disk herniation, there has been no consensus of opinion …

Objective To determine the prevalence and the burden of diseases of the nervous system in
the Netherlands. Design

The influence on practice of a publication about a randomised clinical trial of chemonucleolysis
(CNL) vs. herniotomy in patients with lumbar prolapsed intervertebral disc was …

Meta-analysis of receiver operating characteristic (ROC)-curve data is often done with fixed-effects
models, which suffer many shortcomings. Some random-effects models have been …

Recent experiments at ASDEX Upgrade have achieved advanced scenarios with high β N (>
3) and confinement enhancement over ITER98 (y, 2) scaling, H H98y2= 1.1–1.5, in steady …

The prevailing view is that women have a higher early mortality after acute myocardial
infarction (AMI) than men, but several studies have shown no differences. Further, long-term …