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Lotty Hooft

Full Professor

Biography

Prof. Dr. Lotty Hooft is Professor of Evidence Synthesis and Knowledge Translation in Healthcare at the Julius Center, UMC Utrecht, and Director of Cochrane Netherlands. She heads the Department of Epidemiology and Health Economics and the international MSc in Epidemiology program. With more than two decades of experience, she is an internationally recognized expert in systematic reviews, diagnostic and prognostic test evaluation, and guideline development, and has helped shape key reporting and risk-of-bias standards including TRIPOD, STARD, and PROBAST, as well as the (de)implementation of evidence-based healthcare practices.

Recent publications

Effectiveness of organization-directed interventions on healthcare professionals' well-being Amber Boskma, Kim van der Braak, Lotty Hooft, Michiel Oerbekke, Arie Franx, Maarten van der Laan
EClinicalMedicine, 2025, vol. 88
Uncovering gaps in workforce well-being A. C.P. Boskma, M. S. Oerbekke, L. Hooft, A. Franx, W. Schaufeli, M. J. Van Der Laan
BMJ Open, 2025, vol. 15
Improving the reporting and use of trial results in clinical trials registries Tabea Kaul, Johanna Aa Damen, Anna Lene Seidler, Melina Willson, Ghassan Karam, Demy Idema, Mike Kusters, Mary Ann Dowsett, Tala Ibrahim Hasan Abutahoun, Lotty Hooft, Kylie E Hunter
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 2025, vol. 186
Experiences, impact, and enablers of involving young people and family caregivers in developing reporting guidelines for paediatric randomised trials Ami Baba, Maureen Smith, Jennifer Preston, Begonya Nafria Escalera, Segolene Gaillard, Pamela Dicks, Matthew Prebeg, Amanda Doherty-Kirby, Kimberly Courtney, Lynn Mendonza, Tanya Chute Nagy, Lotty Hooft, Martin Offringa
Research involvement and engagement, 2025, vol. 11
Clinical utility of limited channel sleep studies versus polysomnography for obstructive sleep apnoea Sander van Doorn, Demy L Idema, Pauline Heus, Johanna Aag Damen, René Spijker, Eva J Japenga, Herre J Reesink, Lotty Hooft
The Cochrane database of systematic reviews, 2025, vol. 2025
Expert panel as reference standard procedure in diagnostic accuracy studies Bas E Kellerhuis, Kevin Jenniskens, Mike P T Kusters, Ewoud Schuit, Lotty Hooft, Karel G M Moons, Johannes B Reitsma
Diagnostic and Prognostic Research, 2025, vol. 9

External positions

Lid van onafhankelijke adviescommissie - Toetsen van projectideeën en uitgewerkte subsidieaanvragen voor de subsidieregeling (Advenzo) - Zorginstituut

Member Council and Methods Groups (Prognosis, Screening and Diagnostic Tests) - Methodology development - Cochrane