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Dorien Zwart

Full Professor

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Biography

Dorien Zwart, M.D., Ph.D, is Full Professor of General Practice/Family Medicine and Head of Department of General Practice&Nursing Sciences in the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care at University Medical Center Utrecht. She also practices as a Family Physician at the Primary Health Care Center De Bilt. Zwart's research primarily focuses on patient safety and quality in general practice targeting the top 3 patient safety challenges in primary care: triage/diagnostic safety, transitional safety and medication safety. Within this scope, she is developing and supervising an applied scientific research portfolio as part of healthcare innovation research in the Julius Center.  She mainly works on multi method complex intervention studies in multidisciplinary research teams.  Beside her research, she is a passionate teacher and educational innovator. She teaches general practice and family medicine as well as quality and patient safety subjects in graduate, post graduate and post academic education. Zwart received her medical degree at the University of Groningen, her medical specialty degree at the University Medical Center Utrecht and her doctorate at the University of Utrecht.

Research groups

Cardiovascular health in general practice

Research aim

Improve cardiovascular health of people by high-quality research aimed at early detection of cardiovascular disease, risk-stratification, risk-based treatment, and primary care innovation.

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Recent publications

European general practitioners' attitudes towards person-centred care and factors that influence its implementation in everyday practice Goranka Petriček, Zalika Klemenc-Ketiš, Zlata Ožvačić Adžić, Venija Cerovečki, Sara Willems, Zoi Tsimtsiou, Erika Zelko, Claire Collins, Kathryn Hoffmann, Torunn Bjerve Eide, Sara Ares Blanco, Thomas Frese, Heidrun Lingner, Radost Assenova, Péter Torzsa, Bohumil Seifert, Mehmet Ungan, Sabine Bayen, Adam Windak, Joana Azeredo, Katarina Stavrikj, Sanda Kreitmayer, Milena Kostić, Iliana Carmen Busneag, Tuomas Koskela, Alice Serafini, Joanne Butterworth, Dorien Louise Maria Zwart, Jesús González-Lama, Gorka Vuletić, Esther Van Poel, Ksenija Tušek Bunc, Canan Tuz, Vildan Mevsim, Martin Seifert, Mina Dahli, Pero Hrabač, Miroslav Hanževački, Jelena Rakić Matić, Marion Tomičić, Marko Rađa, Bruno Heleno, Krzysztof Studzinski, Ádám Becze, Rosa Megallón-Botaya, Heather Lynn Rogers, Christine Brütting, Didem Kafadar, David Lerma Irureta, Davide Fornacciari, Katarzyna Nessler, Kiril Soleski, Fátima Méndez-López, Oğulcan Çöme, Abeer Ahmad, Davorina Petek
European Journal of General Practice, 2025, vol. 31
Patient safety in general practice during COVID-19 Esther Van Poel, Pierre Vanden Bussche, Claire Collins, Susan Lagaert, Sara Ares-Blanco, Maria Pilar Astier-Pena, Jonila Gabrani, Raquel Gomez Bravo, Kathryn Hoffmann, Zalika Klemenc-Ketis, Christian Mallen, Ana Luisa Neves, Zlata Ožvačić, Victoria Tkachenko, Dorien Zwart, Sara Willems
Family Practice, 2025, vol. 42
Exploring expressed concerns and uncanny feeling in patients with shortness of breath calling out-of-hours primary care Michelle Spek, Dorien L Zwart, Esther de Groot, Michelle R Timmerman, Maarten van Smeden, Daphne C A Erkelens, Anna S M Dobbe, Mathé Delissen, Frans H Rutten, Roderick P Venekamp
BMC Primary Care, 2025, vol. 26
Are dizziness/lightheadedness helpful symptoms for telephone triage of females and males calling the out-of-hours service for acute chest discomfort? Anna S M Dobbe, Dorien L Zwart, Laurens van der Hem, D Carmen Erkelens, Loes T C M Wouters, Sander van Doorn, Hester M den Ruijter, Frans H Rutten,
BMJ Open, 2025, vol. 15
Pharmacists’ perspectives on potential pharmacist prescribing Bilge Kaymakci, Daphne Philbert, Ankie C.M. Hazen, Mette Heringa, Henk Frans Kwint, Dorien L.M. Zwart, Liset van Dijk, Sofia Kälvemark Sporrong, Thomas G.H. Kempen
International journal of clinical pharmacy, 2024, vol. 47, p.392-402
Acute remote home monitoring of acutely ill patients with COVID-19 Karin Smit, Rick T. van Uum, Stella Rijks, Alma C. van de Pol, Abeer Ahmad, Roderick P. Venekamp, Frans H. Rutten, Dorien L.M. Zwart,
BMC Health Services Research, 2024, vol. 24