Academisch Medisch Centrum Universiteit van Amsterdam

In 2006, I was involved in the coaching of 18 PhD students. The majority of these PhD students are carrying out diagnostic research in general practice, the main focus of the departments research programme.
In 2006, the theses ‘Quality of HIV care from the patients’ perspective’ (Christine Hekkink) and ‘ Acute infectious conjunctivitis in a new perspective; diagnosis and treatment in general practice’ (Remco Rietveld) were published by the department of General Practice.
The work presented in the first mentioned thesis described the quality of HIV care in the Netherlands from the patients’ perspective. An HIV version of the Quote questionnaire was developed (QUOT-HIV) and used to examine how patients experienced the quality of care received from their HIV specialist, general practitioner and HIV nursing consultant. A RCT was carried out to study whether post graduate training in combination with structured communication could improve the quality of health care.
The second thesis focused on the development of a diagnostic rule for a bacterial origin of acute infectious conjunctivitis and on the result of a RCT on the effectiveness of topical antibiotic in the treatment of acute infectious conjunctivitis. We showed that fusidic acid gel had a similar cure rate of 7 days as placebo. Two chapters of this thesis were published in the British Medical Journal.

Theme: Public Health

This research group participates in AmCOGG, ACE ( Amsterdam Center for Epidemiology)

Group members

Researchers
Prof. P.J.E. Bindels
H.J. Brouwer
J.A. Haafkens
E. Schadé
H.C.P.M. van Weert
M. Wieringa-de Waard

Postdocs
R.P. Rietveld

PhD students
Drs  E.J.A. Beune
Drs  J.S. Cnossen
Drs J. Dros
Drs N. Eminovic
Drs W. Hagmolen of ten Have
Drs J.M. Habraken
Drs E. Hoefman
Drs M. Hoekstra
Drs D.G. Keuken
Drs B.J. Knottnerus
Drs H. Koch
Drs E.P. Moll van Charante
Drs B.M. Roede
Drs E.F. van der Velde
Drs C.J.H. de Vries
Drs K.A. Wittkampf
Drs K. van Wonderen