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Meeting abstracts

European Academy of Nursing Science and the Swedish Society of Nursing Summer Conference 2017: The Future Direction of European Nursing and Nursing Research

Denise F. Polit, Souraya Sidani, David A. Richards, Ania Willman, Alison Kitson, Marleen Huijben-Schoenmakers, Arno Rademaker, Erik Scherder, Kaisa Bjuresäter, Maria Larsson, Ulrika Bergsten, Margaret Coulter Smith, Claire Pearson, Savina Tropea, Fiona O’May, Lindesay Irvine…

BMC Nursing 2017 16(Suppl 1):32

Published on: 27 June 2017

This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 1
Study protocol

Pain Intervention for people with Dementia in nursing homes (PID): study protocol for a quasi-experimental nurse intervention

Andrea Koppitz, Georg Bosshard, Geneviève Blanc, Hannele Hediger, Sheila Payne and Thomas Volken

BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:27

Published on: 21 April 2017
Research article

Tripartite species interaction: eukaryotic hosts suffer more from phage susceptible than from phage resistant bacteria

Carolin C. Wendling, Agnes Piecyk, Dominik Refardt, Cynthia Chibani, Robert Hertel, Heiko Liesegang, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann and Olivia Roth

BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:98

Published on: 11 April 2017
Research article

Intertester and intratester reliability of movement control tests on the hip for patients with hip osteoarthritis

Rahel Lenzlinger-Asprion, Niculina Keller, André Meichtry and Hannu Luomajoki

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:55

Published on: 31 January 2017
Research

Change of sagittal spinal alignment and its association with pain and function after lumbar surgery augmented with an interspinous implant

Rebecca J. Crawford, Quentin J. Malone and Roger I. Price

Scoliosis and Spinal Disorders 2017 12:2

Published on: 30 January 2017
Technical advance

Manually defining regions of interest when quantifying paravertebral muscles fatty infiltration from axial magnetic resonance imaging: a proposed method for the lumbar spine with anatomical cross-reference

Rebecca J. Crawford, Jon Cornwall, Rebecca Abbott and James M. Elliott

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:25

Published on: 19 January 2017
Research article

Correlation between lumbar dysfunction and fat infiltration in lumbar multifidus muscles in patients with low back pain

Markus Hildebrandt, Gabriela Fankhauser, André Meichtry and Hannu Luomajoki

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:12

Published on: 10 January 2017
Research article

Distinct profiles of reactive and proactive aggression in adolescents: associations with cognitive and affective empathy

Felix Euler, Célia Steinlin and Christina Stadler

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017 11:1

Published on: 6 January 2017
Research

Swiss ethnoveterinary knowledge on medicinal plants – a within-country comparison of Italian speaking regions with north-western German speaking regions

Maria Mayer, Mirjam Zbinden, Christan R. Vogl, Silvia Ivemeyer, Beat Meier, Michele Amorena, Ariane Maeschli, Matthias Hamburger and Michael Walkenhorst

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2017 13:1

Published on: 3 January 2017
Research article

Experiences of general practitioners, home care nurses, physiotherapists and seniors involved in a multidisciplinary home-based fall prevention programme: a mixed method study

Astrid E. Amacher, Irina Nast, Barbara Zindel, Lukas Schmid, Valérie Krafft and Karin Niedermann

BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:469

Published on: 5 September 2016
Research

Rate of lumbar paravertebral muscle fat infiltration versus spinal degeneration in asymptomatic populations: an age-aggregated cross-sectional simulation study

Rebecca J. Crawford, Thomas Volken, Stephanie Valentin, Markus Melloh and James M Elliott

Scoliosis and Spinal Disorders 2016 11:21

Published on: 5 August 2016
Technical advance

Reliability of quantifying the spatial distribution of fatty infiltration in lumbar paravertebral muscles using a new segmentation method for T1-weighted MRI

Áine Ni Mhuiris, Thomas Volken, James M. Elliott, Mark Hoggarth, Dino Samartzis and Rebecca J. Crawford

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:234

Published on: 27 May 2016
Research article

What is the effect of sensory discrimination training on chronic low back pain? A systematic review

Samuel Kälin, Anne-Kathrin Rausch-Osthoff and Christoph Michael Bauer

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:143

Published on: 2 April 2016
Research article

Sub-classification based specific movement control exercises are superior to general exercise in sub-acute low back pain when both are combined with manual therapy: A randomized controlled trial

Vesa Lehtola, Hannu Luomajoki, Ville Leinonen, Sean Gibbons and Olavi Airaksinen

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:135

Published on: 22 March 2016
Research article

Economic analysis of two-stage septic revision after total hip arthroplasty: What are the relevant costs for the hospital’s orthopedic department?

R. Kasch, G. Assmann, S. Merk, T. Barz, M. Melloh, A. Hofer, H. Merk and S. Flessa

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:112

Published on: 1 March 2016
Research article

Assessing the performance of maternity care in Europe: a critical exploration of tools and indicators

Ramón Escuriet, Joanna White, Katrien Beeckman, Lucy Frith, Fatima Leon-Larios, Christine Loytved, Ans Luyben, Marlene Sinclair and Edwin van Teijlingen

BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:491

Published on: 2 November 2015
Review

Darwin and Fisher meet at biotech: on the potential of computational molecular evolution in industry

Maria Anisimova

BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:76

Published on: 1 May 2015
Research article

Effect of preoperative neuromuscular training (NEMEX-TJR) on functional outcome after total knee replacement: an assessor-blinded randomized controlled trial

Erika O Huber, Ewa M Roos, André Meichtry, Rob A de Bie and Heike A Bischoff-Ferrari

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:101

Published on: 25 April 2015
Research article

Short-term effect on pain and function of neurophysiological education and sensorimotor retraining compared to usual physiotherapy in patients with chronic or recurrent non-specific low back pain, a pilot randomized controlled trial

Philipp Wälti, Jan Kool and Hannu Luomajoki

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:83

Published on: 10 April 2015
Research article

Reliability of movement control tests on the cervical spine

Maja Patroncini, Susanne Hannig, André Meichtry and Hannu Luomajoki

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2014 15:402

Published on: 29 November 2014

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