Whooping cough vaccination for pregnant women
In 2019, all pregnant Dutch women will be offered a free booster vaccination with the DKTP (diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus and poliomyelitis) vaccine in the third trimester of their pregnancy ...
Recent articles
Drugs to be avoided II
This article is an adaptation of ‘Towards better patient care: drugs to avoid in 2018’, published in our French sister journal Prescrire International, 2018; 27 (192): 107.1-107.9.
- In view of i ...
Cardiovascular safety of febuxostat
- Like patients with diabetes, patients with gout represent, in absolute terms, a large group of patients at clearly increased cardiovascular risk. It is clinically relevant to know the cardiovasc ...
Adverse cardiovascular effects associated with proton pump inhibitors
- The study described here provides no definitive answer to the question whether PPIs do indeed cause an elevated cardiac risk.
- The study shows that there is an increased risk of stroke and my ...
Recent research into rivaroxaban
- Rivaroxaban has clearly found its way into Dutch medical practice, for a limited number of registered indications: for venous thrombo-embolism (treatment and prevention) and for the prevention o ...
Proton pump inhibitors for infants
- Regurgitation by infants and gastro-oesophageal reflux are physiological phenomena and do not require medical treatment. Randomised studies into such medical treatment have found no evidence for ...
Survival of intensive care patients at elevated risk of delirium
Delirium is a serious condition with an elevated risk of mortality in the short and longer term. This also goes for patients who develop delirium during a stay at an intensive care unit. Hence, pr ...
Cardiovascular safety of canagliflozin
Adding canagliflozin to an existing therapy in patients with type 2 diabetes and high cardiovascular risk is just as safe as adding a placebo, but may possibly offer only marginally greater cardi ...
