Projects
Set up of pharmacy-based clinical pharmacy services, the cornerstone for patient safety in Belgium KU Leuven
Clinical validation ('check of medication appropriateness') gains importance in Belgium for the organisation of clinical pharmacy. Patient records are screened electronically for potential inappropriate prescriptions (medication errors), which are then checked by a clinical pharmacist. When a medication error is noticed by the clinical pharmacist, advice is given to the physician. This type of clinical pharmacy makes it possible to deliver ...
Optimizing drug therapy in high risk older patients KU Leuven
The global population is ageing. This evolution prompts new needs for health care that urgently need to be addressed. Briefly, older adults use more health care resources overall and are more regularly admitted to the hospital. Those hospital admissions represent a substantial portion of national health care budgets. Polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate medications have been shown to be important risk factors associated with such ...
System xc- as a novel therapeutic target to limit neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease Vrije Universiteit Brussel
antiporter system xc- as a possible target for ...
Reprogramming ghrelin-dopamine interactions in stress-induced psychopathology through caloric restriction. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Improving drug use in older adults during hospital stay KU Leuven
Within the community as well as in hospitals, older adults constitute an important group that is furthermore expected to increase the coming decades. They are susceptible to drug-related problems (DRP) and more so than younger adults. Partially owing to these DRP, older adults are admitted in higher numbers to hospitals. DRP might be avoided however by applying certain strategies in primary care, but also during hospital stay, during which ...