van den Heuvel B

No ORCID on file · 3 papers in corpus
2019
Electronic Health Program to Empower Patients in Returning to Normal Activities After General Surgical and Gynecological Procedures: Intervention Mapping as a Useful Method for Further Development.
Journal of medical Internet research ·doi:10.2196/jmir.9938

BackgroundSupport for guiding and monitoring postoperative recovery and resumption of activities is usually not provided to patients after discharge from the hospital. Therefore, a perioperative electronic health (eHealth) intervention ("ik…

2017
Assessing pre- and postoperative activity levels with an accelerometer: a proof of concept study.
BMC surgery ·doi:10.1186/s12893-017-0223-0

BackgroundPostoperative recovery after abdominal surgery is measured mostly based on subjective or self-reported data. In this article we aim to evaluate whether recovery of daily physical activity levels can be measured postoperatively wit…

2016
Substitution of Usual Perioperative Care by eHealth to Enhance Postoperative Recovery in Patients Undergoing General Surgical or Gynecological Procedures: Study Protocol of a Randomized Controlled Trial.
JMIR research protocols ·doi:10.2196/resprot.6580

BackgroundDue to the strong reduction in the length of hospital stays in the last decade, the period of in-hospital postoperative care is limited. After discharge from the hospital, guidance and monitoring on recovery and resumption of (wor…