Sabine Vuik

Imperial College London | Imperial · Institute of Global Health Innovation

Objective: To determine whether psychosocial factors moderate the relationship between surgical complications and quality of life (QoL). Background: Patients who experience surgical complications have significantly worse postoperative QoL than patients with an uncomplicated recovery. Psychosocial factors, such as coping style and level of social...

Rationale Patient experience data are often reported at the provider level rather than the patient level, meaning that providers receive an aggregate score of all patient experience scores across their service. This inflates positivity and makes it difficult for providers to use patient experience scores to tailor improvements for patients within s...

Objective To show how segmentation can enhance risk stratification tools for integrated care, by providing insight into different care usage patterns within the high-risk population. Design A retrospective cohort study. A risk score was calculated for each person using a logistic regression, which was then used to select the top 5% high-risk indiv...

Background To improve population health it is crucial to understand the different care needs within a population. Traditional population groups are often based on characteristics such as age or morbidities. However, this does not take into account specific care needs across care settings and tends to focus on high-needs patients only. This paper ex...

Quality care in surgery is closely linked with the rate of complications. However, little is known about the impact of these complications on patient's physical and mental wellbeing. Nonetheless, they have a significant financial impact, as patients require mental, physical and social support, combined with a cost to society due to a loss of produc...

Objective: The Brief COPE is a 28-item measure of coping used widely in health research, including studies in surgical settings. However, its psychometric properties have not been validated with a sample of surgical patients and scores have been interpreted with a general model proposed by the original author. The objective of this study was to eva...

Introduction: Aim of the study was to compare various outcomes of dementia patients with elderly patients without dementia by conducting a systematic review of previous population-based studies. Methods: The relevant studies were retrieved from search of electronic databases. Results: The pooled data from included 11 studies consisted of outco...

With the rise of social media as an important channel for the debate and discussion of public affairs, online social networks such as Twitter have become important platforms for public information and engagement by policy makers. To communicate effectively through Twitter, policy makers need to understand how influence and interest propagate within...

Integrated care aims to organize care around the patient instead of the provider. It is therefore crucial to understand differences across patients and their needs. Segmentation analysis that uses big data can help divide a patient population into distinct groups, which can then be targeted with care models and intervention programs tailored to the...

Background: Second-generation antipsychotics (SGAs) are often prescribed in the treatment of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD), however, their use has been discouraged in light of clinical trials suggesting that they cause an increased risk of cerebrovascular accidents (CVAs). Objective: Aim of the study was to assess rela...

Background . Previous evidence on factors and causes of readmissions associated with high-impact users of stroke is scanty. The aim of the study was to investigate common causes and pattern of short- and long-term readmissions stroke patients by conducting a systematic review of studies using hospital administrative data. Common risk factors associ...

Introduction: Functional decline is commonly assessed by questionnaire-based surveys; however, administrative data can provide an alternative to evaluate functional decline. The aim of this study was to find out whether administrative data can be used to predict functional decline by conducting a systematic review of the literature. Methods: The me...