IIGO: Intelligent Internet mediated control in the built environment: Description of a large-scale experiment in a utility building setting

<p class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-hyphenate: none">Aninnovative strategy for managing the thermal comfort in utility buildings has been developed in the SMART-project. A pre-emptive, forward-looking strategy based optimisation using the intelligent agent metaphor is used, as it is available in the SEBOS-shell. The ...

Determinantenanalyse JGZ-standaard opsporing van aangeboren hartafwijkingen

Theoretical framework: Influence strategies, negotiation phases and the cultural context in crisis situations

"Early this morning, Russian commandoes have put a bloody end to the hostage tragedy in a theatre in Moscow. At the liberation action, certainly ninety hostages and fifty Chechnyan rebels were killed. Hundreds of people have been brought to hospitals. Dozens of them are in a bad way because they have inhaled gas that has been used at the...

A cardiac-specific health-related quality of life module for young adults with congenital heart disease: Development and validation

This study represents the development and validation of a cardiac-specific module of the generic health-related quality of life (HRQoL) instrument, the TAAQOL (TNO/AZL Adult Quality Of Life), for young adults with congenital heart disease (CHD). Items were selected based on literature, an explorative previous study in CHD patients, interviews...

Ouder worden met een aangeboren hartafwijking: Hoe is de kwaliteit van leven? [How is the quality of life in aging persons with a congenital heart disease?]

In adults (aged 17 to 32 years) with mild or complex previously operated congenital heart disease, health-related quality of life (measured with the TAAQOL) and subjective health status (measured with the SF-36) were compared with those of the general population. In addition, the relation between these measures and physical indices was...

The need for cardiac follow-up in adults with mild congenital cardiac disease

Objective: To discuss the need for continuing cardiac surveillance in adults with hemodynamically insignificant congenital cardiac disease. Methods: In 82 patients with mild congenital cardiac malformations, aged from 17 to 32 years, we investigated the subjective health status, the health-related quality of life, any difficulties encountered in...

Employment in adults with congenital heart disease

Objective: To evaluate job participation, careerrelated problems, and actual job problems in adults with complex congenital heart disease (CHD) compared with adults with mild CHD and reference groups. Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: Patients were randomly selected from the archives of the Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Leiden...

Health related quality of life and health status in adult survivors with previously operated complex congenital heart disease

OBJECTIVE: To examine the impact of previously operated complex congenital heart disease on health related quality of life and subjective health status and to determine the relation between these parameters and physical status. DESIGN: Cross sectional; information on medical follow up was sought retrospectively. SETTING: Patients were randomly...

Disease-related difficulties and satisfaction with level of knowledge in adults with mild or complex congenital heart disease

Objectives: To evaluate difficulties in daily life, and satisfaction with level of knowledge about their disease, in patients with congenital cardiac disease in order to improve counselling. Methods: A self-administered questionnaire was completed by 80 patients with mild, and 76 with complex, congenital cardiac disease. They were aged from 17...

Smart Work Package 4.2: Smart field test. Experience of users and technical aspects

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Quality of life in adults with congenital heart disease

Health-related quality of life in young adults with minor congenital heart disease

The present study examined the social impediments experienced by young adults with minor congenital heart disease (CHD) and compared the health status and health-related quality of life of these CHD-patients with a matched group (age, sex) from the general population. Young adults with minor CHD, not in need of surgical correction, were sent a...

Computerised intelligence in small scale home networks and beyond: opportunities for energy efficiency

In this report the possibility of realising smart applications usingmodern information and communication technologies on the residential scale is investigated from a number of viewpoints. The first viewpoint is a technological one emphasising the electronic hardware. Various possible processor and network architectures are discussed and...

TACQOL manual: parent form and child form

TERMS OF USE TAPQOL, TACQOL AND TAAQOL questionnaires and related materials on our website, including manuals, normative data and syntaxes come free of charge. No registration is needed. This goes for use by non- or not-for-profit parties. For-profit users need to contact us and negotiate a fee.

TACQOL manual parent form (ages 6-11) and child form (ages 8=-11)

TERMS OF USE TAPQOL, TACQOL AND TAAQOL questionnaires and related materials on our website, including manuals, normative data and syntaxes come free of charge. No registration is needed. This goes for use by non- or not-for-profit parties. For-profit users need to contact us and negotiate a fee.

Measuring health-related quality of life in a child population

Background: The 56-item TNO AZL Child Quality Of Life (TACQOL) questionnaire was developed to meet the need for a reliable and valid instrument for measuring health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in children. HRQoL was defined as health status in seven domains plus emotional responses to problems in health status. The TACQOL explicitly offers...

Measuring health-related quality of life in children: The development of the TACQOL parent form

Health-related quality of life (HRQoL), conceptualized as patients' own evaluations of their health status, is an important criterion in evaluating health and health care and in the treatment of individual patients. Until now, few systematic attempts have been made to develop instruments to assess the HRQoL of children using such a...

Het meten van Kwaliteit van Leven bij kinderen met chronische aandoeningen: De ontwikkeling van de TACQOL-vragenlijsten

De WHO definieert gezondheid als 'a state of comple­te physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity'. De defini­tie stamt uit 1947 en wordt in principe door vrijwel iedereen met instemming aangehaald. Wanneer je echter kijkt naar de manier waarop gezondheid in onderzoek wordt vastgesteld en...