Projects
Developing and evaluating innovative interventions to improve Advance Care Planning (ACP): towards a comprehensive multistakeholder model Vrije Universiteit Brussel
between patients, family carers and professionals about preferences
for future end-of-life care. The goal of ACP is to help to ensure that
patients receive care that is consistent with their preferences,
including at times when patients are no longer able to make their own
decisions about care. Despite its importance, the uptake of ACP in
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Advance care planning (ACP) with people with dementia and their caregivers: development of an ACP communication in dementia skills training for physicians Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Improving patients’ readiness to engage in advance care planning with their general practitioner: a randomized controlled trial Vrije Universiteit Brussel
conceptualized as an ongoing communication process that should be initiated early in the disease trajectory. However, ACP is often still initiated too late, when a medical emergency occurs or the patient is near death. General practitioners (GPs) play a critical role in earlier initiation of ACP. By discussing ACP with their GP, ...
A Phase III trial in six European countries to check the impact of prior care planning on the welfare of caregivers of advanced cancer patients Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Advanced resource planning in the healthcare sector: impact of time-varying demand. KU Leuven
CAPACITY: Flanders Project to Develop Capacity in Palliative Care Across Society KU Leuven
Palliative care is an approach that helps people live their life as fully and as comfortably as possible when confronted with a serious illness. Despite substantial progress over the past decades, there are still several challenges as a result of the increasing number of people who will need palliative care for a longer period, while the professional workforce is limited. There is growing realization that it will not be sufficient to solely ...
SBO project with a primary societal finality: CAPACITY: Flanders Project to Develop Capacity in Palliative Care Across Society Vrije Universiteit Brussel
2) To develop and evaluate innovative interventions for broad capacity-development around palliative care
CAPACITY: Flanders Project to Develop Capacity in Palliative Care Across Society Ghent University
Paediatric care at the end of life: a population-based analysis using quality indicators Ghent University
Each year about 6 in every 100.000 children (aged 1-17) die of a life-threatening condition. Partly
as a result of the specific value appointed to a child’ life, treatment for these children is often
focused on cure and life prolongation until the last stages of life, even when no longer warranted
or beneficial, having an important influence on the child’ quality of life. Population-based
research ...