Bianca M Buurman
Biographic Data
| ID | 6740447 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bianca M Buurman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bianca M |
| FAMILY NAME | Buurman |
| SIGNATURE | BUURMAN B M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Amsterdam University Medical Centers |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7139-6178 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Intermediate care in the Netherlands
Background: Short-term residential care (STRC) is an intermediate care model in the Netherlands that provides temporary inpatient care for community-dwelling older adults who experience a sudden health or functionality decline. Variations in admission criteria, treatment in STRC and admission capacity across regions leads to lack of insights into population characteristics but also in standardization of treatment. Approach: Together with professi…
Development, implementation and evaluation of a transmural care pathway advance care planning
Background: Preferences regarding care and treatment now and in the future for older people are often unknown and not exchanged between care settings and health care professionals. This leads to not dying at the preferred place, increased symptom burden and impacts quality of life and dying. Approach: Together with all people involved in advance care planning, from different disciplines and care settings, we developed a transmural care pathway ad…
The recognition of palliative care needs in geriatric rehabilitation
Background: Palliative care needs in older persons are often not recognized timely, resulting in inappropriate care and avoidable care transitions in the last phase of life. It is expected that palliative care needs are also present in persons admitted for geriatric rehabilitation (GR), e.g., after a cerebrovascular incident or hip fracture. However, the prevalence of these needs is unclear. Furthermore, it is uncertain what factors healthcare pr…
Exploring intermediate care trajectories
Background: Short-term residential stay (STRC) is an intermediate care model in the Netherlands designed to support older adults in returning home and maintaining independent living in the community. Yet, 33% transition to long-term care (LTC), and 30% die within the same year of admission. Analysing average population trajectories is insufficient for informing (clinical) policy. This study identifies underlying latent groups of STRC patients wit…
Intermediate care in the Netherlands
Background: Intermediate care offers temporary inpatient support for older adults living in the community in the Netherlands who have encountered an acute decline in health or functional abilities, the primary objective being to stabilize or enhance their condition, enabling them to return home. Currently there are no guidelines or pathways available on how to best organize intermediate care, and there is a large variety in patient characteristic…
Guiding Principles for Transformation Towards Integrated Acute Care for Older Adults Close to Home
Transforming towards IACOP close to home is complex and requires continuous action across integration levels, health practices and sectors. The meso-level principles guide regional partnerships in applying context-specific strategies; activating the underlying mechanisms for transformation like 'enjoying the process'. Yet, successful transformation also hinges on actions by system stakeholders
Receiving home care forms and the risk for emergency department visits in community-dwelling Dutch older adults, a retrospective cohort study using national data
Distinguishing between the form of home care older adults receive identifies subpopulations with different risks for ED visits compared with community-dwelling older adults not receiving home care on a population level. Home care transitions are frequent and mostly involve more intensive care or death. Although older adults not receiving home care have a lower risk of ED visits, they contribute most to the absolute volume of ED visits
Avoiding Hospital Admissions and Delayed Transfers of Care by Improved Access to Intermediate Care
Objective: The current waiting times for intermediate care in the Netherlands prohibit timely access, leading to unwanted and costly hospital admissions. For the city of Amsterdam, we propose alternative policies for improvement of intermediate care and estimate the effects on the waiting times, hospitalization, and the number of patient replacements. Design: Discrete Event Simulation (DES) study. Participants: Data was used of older adults that …
Engaging healthcare professionals in refining the target group of a new care type
Background: The acute geriatric community hospital (AGCH) is an alternative to conventional hospitalisation of older adults. At the AGCH, patients receive acute medical specialist treatment in combination with early rehabilitation in an fitting environment by an interdisciplinary team of professionals. Ambiguity exists on the exact definition of the target group for the AGCH and the difference with the target groups for bed-based intermediate car…
National survey evaluating patient and organisational characteristics of short-term residential care facilities in the Netherlands
Background: Short-term residential Care (STRC) is a recent, bed-based care concept for older adults aimed to avoid nursing home admission in the Netherlands. Objective: To describe characteristics of patients admitted to STRC and the main organizational differences between facilities. Methods: Patient characteristics were identified using a national STRC database (2018 and 2019). Organizational comparisons of STRC facilities were collected throug…
The Impact of Covid-19 from the Perspectives of Dutch District Nurses
Little is known about how COVID-19 affects older patients living at home or how it affects district nursing teams providing care to these patients. This study aims to (1) explore, from the perspectives of Dutch district nurses, COVID-19's impact on patients receiving district nursing care, district nursing teams, and their organisations during the first outbreak in March 2020 as well as one year later; and (2) identify the needs of district nurse…
Older patients’ perspectives on factors contributing to frequent visits to the emergency department
This qualitative study identified multiple factors that may contribute to frequent ED visits among older patients. Older patients in need of acute care might benefit from hospital-at-home interventions, or acute care provided by geriatric emergency teams in the primary care setting. Identifying frailty in the ED is needed to improve discharge communication and adequate follow-up is needed to improve recovery after an acute ED visit
Hopelessness and Other Depressive Symptoms in Adults 70 Years and Older as Predictors of All-Cause Mortality Within 3 Months After Acute Hospitalization
OBJECTIVE: Depression among older adults predicts mortality after acute hospitalization. Depression is highly heterogeneous in its presentation of symptoms, whereas individual symptoms may differ in predictive value. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of individual cognitive-affective depressive symptoms during acute hospitalization and investigate the predictive value of both overall and individual cognitive-affective depressive symp…
PalliSupport – The development, feasibility and implementation of a transitional integrated care pathway for older patients with palliative care needs
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Development and implementation of an acute geriatric community clinic
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
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Hopelessness and Other Depressive Symptoms in Adults 70 Years and Older as Predictors of All-Cause Mortality Within 3 Months After Acute Hospitalization
OBJECTIVE: Depression among older adults predicts mortality after acute hospitalization. Depression is highly heterogeneous in its presentation of symptoms, whereas individual symptoms may differ in predictive value. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of individual cognitive-affective depressive symptoms during acute hospitalization and investigate the predictive value of both overall and individual cognitive-affective depressive symp…
PalliSupport – The development, feasibility and implementation of a transitional integrated care pathway for older patients with palliative care needs
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Development and implementation of an acute geriatric community clinic
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
The Impact of Covid-19 from the Perspectives of Dutch District Nurses
Little is known about how COVID-19 affects older patients living at home or how it affects district nursing teams providing care to these patients. This study aims to (1) explore, from the perspectives of Dutch district nurses, COVID-19's impact on patients receiving district nursing care, district nursing teams, and their organisations during the first outbreak in March 2020 as well as one year later; and (2) identify the needs of district nurse…
Older patients’ perspectives on factors contributing to frequent visits to the emergency department
This qualitative study identified multiple factors that may contribute to frequent ED visits among older patients. Older patients in need of acute care might benefit from hospital-at-home interventions, or acute care provided by geriatric emergency teams in the primary care setting. Identifying frailty in the ED is needed to improve discharge communication and adequate follow-up is needed to improve recovery after an acute ED visit
Avoiding Hospital Admissions and Delayed Transfers of Care by Improved Access to Intermediate Care
Objective: The current waiting times for intermediate care in the Netherlands prohibit timely access, leading to unwanted and costly hospital admissions. For the city of Amsterdam, we propose alternative policies for improvement of intermediate care and estimate the effects on the waiting times, hospitalization, and the number of patient replacements. Design: Discrete Event Simulation (DES) study. Participants: Data was used of older adults that …
Engaging healthcare professionals in refining the target group of a new care type
Background: The acute geriatric community hospital (AGCH) is an alternative to conventional hospitalisation of older adults. At the AGCH, patients receive acute medical specialist treatment in combination with early rehabilitation in an fitting environment by an interdisciplinary team of professionals. Ambiguity exists on the exact definition of the target group for the AGCH and the difference with the target groups for bed-based intermediate car…
National survey evaluating patient and organisational characteristics of short-term residential care facilities in the Netherlands
Background: Short-term residential Care (STRC) is a recent, bed-based care concept for older adults aimed to avoid nursing home admission in the Netherlands. Objective: To describe characteristics of patients admitted to STRC and the main organizational differences between facilities. Methods: Patient characteristics were identified using a national STRC database (2018 and 2019). Organizational comparisons of STRC facilities were collected throug…
Receiving home care forms and the risk for emergency department visits in community-dwelling Dutch older adults, a retrospective cohort study using national data
Distinguishing between the form of home care older adults receive identifies subpopulations with different risks for ED visits compared with community-dwelling older adults not receiving home care on a population level. Home care transitions are frequent and mostly involve more intensive care or death. Although older adults not receiving home care have a lower risk of ED visits, they contribute most to the absolute volume of ED visits
Guiding Principles for Transformation Towards Integrated Acute Care for Older Adults Close to Home
Transforming towards IACOP close to home is complex and requires continuous action across integration levels, health practices and sectors. The meso-level principles guide regional partnerships in applying context-specific strategies; activating the underlying mechanisms for transformation like 'enjoying the process'. Yet, successful transformation also hinges on actions by system stakeholders
Intermediate care in the Netherlands
Background: Short-term residential care (STRC) is an intermediate care model in the Netherlands that provides temporary inpatient care for community-dwelling older adults who experience a sudden health or functionality decline. Variations in admission criteria, treatment in STRC and admission capacity across regions leads to lack of insights into population characteristics but also in standardization of treatment. Approach: Together with professi…
Development, implementation and evaluation of a transmural care pathway advance care planning
Background: Preferences regarding care and treatment now and in the future for older people are often unknown and not exchanged between care settings and health care professionals. This leads to not dying at the preferred place, increased symptom burden and impacts quality of life and dying. Approach: Together with all people involved in advance care planning, from different disciplines and care settings, we developed a transmural care pathway ad…
The recognition of palliative care needs in geriatric rehabilitation
Background: Palliative care needs in older persons are often not recognized timely, resulting in inappropriate care and avoidable care transitions in the last phase of life. It is expected that palliative care needs are also present in persons admitted for geriatric rehabilitation (GR), e.g., after a cerebrovascular incident or hip fracture. However, the prevalence of these needs is unclear. Furthermore, it is uncertain what factors healthcare pr…
Exploring intermediate care trajectories
Background: Short-term residential stay (STRC) is an intermediate care model in the Netherlands designed to support older adults in returning home and maintaining independent living in the community. Yet, 33% transition to long-term care (LTC), and 30% die within the same year of admission. Analysing average population trajectories is insufficient for informing (clinical) policy. This study identifies underlying latent groups of STRC patients wit…
Intermediate care in the Netherlands
Background: Intermediate care offers temporary inpatient support for older adults living in the community in the Netherlands who have encountered an acute decline in health or functional abilities, the primary objective being to stabilize or enhance their condition, enabling them to return home. Currently there are no guidelines or pathways available on how to best organize intermediate care, and there is a large variety in patient characteristic…
Health care (9 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Frailty in Older Adults (7 works) · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (7 works) · Nursing (7 works) · Integrated care (6 works) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (6 works) · Family medicine (5 works) · Population (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works)