Researcher

Peter Van Bogaert

Research Expertise:Research topics are focused within health services and outcomes research in all domains (acute care, mental health care, residential aged care and primary care) such a research program around nurse practice environments and psychosocial environments of healthcare workers related to various patient outcomes; implementation of improvement initiatives related to quality and patient safety and managers’ role and leadership in healthcare settings. In addition, special interest goes to care for people with dementia studying non-pharmacological treatments and person-center care delivery.

Disciplines:Palliative care and end-of-life care, Nursing, Health care administration, Health management, Hospital science and management, Elderly care, Mental healthcare services, Primary health care, Quality assurance, Residential health care

Research techniques:Cross-sectional survey and longitudinal intervention design, RCTs and mixed method design such as explanatory or exploratory sequential design using applied statistics such as structural equation modeling, multilelevel models and time series analyses. In addition, the development of big data sets with the purpose to use modeling and machine learning techniques in clinical settings

Users of research expertise:Patients and clients, and healthcare workers and organizations in all domains such as acute care, mental health care, residential aged care and primary care.