Kim Tijssen is a PhD-student at the department of Psychiatry & Neuropsychology at the Maastricht University Medical Centre+ since November 2022. With her researchteam she studies the occurence and prevalence of Pediatric Delirium (PD) at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and at the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). She also studies the influence of PD on the Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) of children after admission at the PICU. 

So far she published two papers;

- Schieveld JNM, Tijssen KAM, Strik JMH. (2022) Delirium in the PICU and Hospital Readmission With Delirium Recurrence. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 23(10):843-844. doi: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000003052.

- Strik JMH, Tijssen KAM, Salamah HKZ, De La Haye N, Schieveld JNM. (2023) On children's visits, mobile phones and family empowerment in paediatric intensive care medicine. doi: 10.1007/s00134-023-07070-3.