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OBJECTIVE: To determine and compare the foundation of claims in drug-promoting advertisements in a Dutch journal for physicians and a Dutch journal for pharmacists. DESIGN: A cross-sectional study. METHOD: We included all the drug-promoting advertisements referring to a randomized controlled trial (RCT) we could find on Medline from 2 volumes of the Dutch Journal of Medicine (Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde; NTvG) and the (also Dutch) Pharmaceutical Weekly (Pharmaceutisch Weekblad; PW)...

BACKGROUND: A screening programme for pregnant women has been in place since the 1950s in the Netherlands. In 2004 universal HIV screening according to opting out was implemented. Here, we describe the evaluation of the effectiveness of antenatal screening in the Netherlands for 2006-2008 for HIV, hepatitis B virus (HBV) and syphilis in preventing mother-to-child transmission, by using various data sources. METHODS: The results of antenatal screening (2006-2008) were compared with data from pregnant women and newborns from other data sources...

This article is the introduction to a new series in the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde about the value of physical examination. Associated with this series, on the website (www.ntvg.nl) there are chapters of the new textbook on physical examination and films about carrying out physical examinations. Although physical examination is an essential part of the diagnostic process, often little attention is paid to the correct execution of the examination and there is insufficient knowledge of the value of the findings...

Podcasts become increasingly available for many biomedical journals. Since the beginning of this year the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde (Dutch Journal of Medicine) has been uploading podcasts on a weekly basis. With this the journal offer its readers audio summaries and interviews with authors for free (www.ntvg.nl).

The editor in chief, J. van Gijn, has retired. His main emphasis on the generalist capacities of the physician and on meticulous anamnesis and thorough physical examination is as relevant as ever. However a new challenge is unfolding: how to serve the modern physician who was brought up with digital information and the Internet revolution, with relevant, independent, and objective medical information. The web presence of this journal (www.ntvg.nl) will be brought up to the level of the demanding modern physician...

OBJECTIVE: To determine the Dutch contributions to the formulation of the concept that leprosy is an infectious disease. DESIGN: Literature study. METHOD: A search for relevant publications was made in the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde (Dutch journal of Medicine; NTvG) and the Geneeskundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indië (Medical Journal of the Dutch Indies; GTNI) with the aid of the search terms 'lepra [leprosy]', 'lepra Arabum [Arab leprosy]', 'melaatsheid [leprosy]' and 'elephantiasis Graecorum [Greek elephantiasis]'...

The Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde (NTvG [Dutch Journal of Medicine]) celebrates its 150th anniversary this year. J. van der Meer and S.van 't Hofare the editors of a jubilee book issued to mark the occasion. Two earlier books, issued for the 50th and 100th anniversary of the journal, focused primarily on the history of the association of editors which publishes the NTvG. Unlike these books, a large portion of the current jubilee book is devoted to the history of medicine in the Netherlands in the last 50 years...

At the end of 2005, a new edition of the Woordenlijst Nederlandse taal (List of words in the Dutch language, also referred to as the Green booklet) appeared with a few adjustments to the spelling changes implemented in 1995. These adjustments led to considerable excitement in the media. The new spelling rules and the new List of words have consequences for the style of the articles in the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde (NTvG). The most important changes concern the use of lower case in combinations containing a proper name (for example, 'watson-jones-artrodese' instead of 'Watson-Jones-artrodese')...

OBJECTIVE: To determine how the authors of research published in the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde (Dutch Journal of Medicine; NTvG) translated the questionnaires that they used in other than the Dutch language and to review the arguments on the basis of which the authors chose the questionnaires used. DESIGN: Bibliometric study and a survey. METHOD: All of the authors who had published an article in the NTvG up to and including January 2006 in which a questionnaire was used that was originally not in the Dutch language were approached by means ofa survey...

OBJECTIVES: To determine whether Dutch medical scientists who frequently publish in international journals with high impact factors also publish in Dutch in the Nederlands Tijdschrit voor Geneeskunde (NTvG). DESIGN: Bibliometric study. METHODS: By means of a search in Medline, the Dutch authors were selected who had published the largest number of articles in 20 medical journals with high impact factors from 5 different specialties: general medicine, surgery, dermatology, psychiatry and ophthalmology...

The Vereniging Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde (Society of the Dutch Journal of Medicine) has completed an on-line catalogue of more than 12,000 titels of historic books (www.ntvg.nl).

This year the library of the Vereniging Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde (Society of the Dutch Journal of Medicine) has reached the age of go. The idea was born in 1900 when the editor-in-chief M.Straub proposed starting a library for the Journal. This was rejected by the members of the Society, but fourteen years later, in 1914, when the new editor-in-chief G.A. van Rijnberk made a similar proposal, it was accepted. His long-term as editor (1913-1946) would prove to be a guarantee for the acquisition of a large collection of books, both antique and contemporary...

OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether the health-economics research published in Dutch journals is in agreement with the guidelines for pharmaco-economic research as published in 1999 by the Dutch 'College voor zorgverzekeringen' [Healthcare Insurance Board]. DESIGN: Descriptive. METHOD: A literature search was performed for health-economic evaluations published during 1990-1999 in Dutch journals such as Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde (NTvG), Pharmaceutisch Weekblad and Tijdschrift voor Gezondheidswetenschappen...

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether in the correspondence section of the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde (Dutch Journal of Medicine, NTvG) serious criticism is formulated or important mistakes in the original articles are pointed out. DESIGN: Descriptive, retrospective bibliometric study. METHOD: Correspondence in the period July 5, 1997-June 27, 1998 published in the NTvG (n = 196 letters) was scored for 10 items and categorized in categories: 'agree', 'do not agree' (criticizing methods or results or interpretation, or unmotivated criticism) and 'political reaction'...

OBJECTIVE: To determine the quantitative changes in methods and number of authors of original articles (OA) describing a (medical) scientific study in the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde (NTvG) during 6 volumes in the second part of the 20th century. DESIGN: Retrospective bibliometric. METHOD: All OA published in 1949, 1959, 1969, 1979, 1989 and 1999 were screened on describing a (medical) scientific study, the method used, the number of authors, (medical) students or interns being part of the author list, the number of disciplines of the authors and the institutes where the authors did the study...

OBJECTIVE: To determine the number of female authors in six volumes of the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde (NTvG) and the number of physicians who contributed to at least one article in those volumes. DESIGN: Retrospective. METHOD: We counted the number of articles in the NTvG in 10 different article categories in volumes 1948, 1958, 1968, 1978, 1988 and 1998. The number of authors and the sex and profession of the authors were registered...

OBJECTIVE: To determine the number of undisclosed/disclosed duplicate publications of original articles (OA) in the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde (NTvG). DESIGN: Retrospective bibliometric study. METHOD: All biomedical articles published in January 1994-June 1998 and written by the first or second author of the 148 OA published in 1996, were compared with the articles in the NTvG at the editorial office of the NTvG. Resemblances in the objective, study design, study population between the different articles were observed...

OBJECTIVE: To gain an impression of the frequency and nature of reports in Dutch newspapers about publications in medical-scientific journals. DESIGN: Retrospective, descriptive. METHODS: Press reports appearing during February to July 1995 in the internal and external collections of newspaper cuttings of the Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sports, both composed of reports from, among other things, nine popular evening and morning newspapers, were examined for articles that had been prompted directly by medical publications; this study was carried out in the editorial offices of the Dutch Journal of Medicine (NTvG)...

OBJECTIVE: To establish whether publication of an article propagating a laboratory test leads to measurable increase of the number of requests for that test. DESIGN: Retrospective. METHOD: From volume 138 (1994) of the Dutch Journal of Medicine (NTvG), three clinical lessons were selected that contained an unequivocal clinical message and a recommendation to request a specific laboratory test for particular patients. All laboratories performing the test in question were asked to report the number of requests per month in the months before, after and during publication of the article in question and during the same months of 1993...

OBJECTIVE: To inventory the effects of publishing in the NTvG. DESIGN: Retrospective, descriptive. METHODS: The first authors of the articles of the sections Clinical lessons, Capita selecta, For practice, Original articles, Case reports and Side effects of drugs, from the issues 27-53 of Volume 138 (1994) of the NTvG were approached for a written enquiry about the effects of their articles. Reactions in the form of letters to the editor were assessed by screening the relevant section...