Projects
ACTION: Advance Care Planning – an Innovative Palliative Care Intervention to Improve Quality of Life in Oncology Vrije Universiteit Brussel
ACTION: Advance care planning – een innovative palliative care intervention to improve quality of life in oncology Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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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PREPCA.I.RE: PREpairing Primary Care planning to be AI REady Arteveldehogeschool
PREPCA.I.RE : PREpairing Primary Care planning to be AI Ready Ghent University
With the PREPCA.I.RE project, Artevelde University College and Ghent University want better planned care through the use of intelligent planning assistants in home care, for both patient and healthcare professional. To do this, the focus is on supporting ICT companies i.v.v. the quality (further) development of (new) applications that fit the needs ofnthe home care setting. In addition, the applicants want to focus on making Flemish home care ...
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
Hospital-broad optimisation of advance care planning through improved communication KU Leuven
Advance care planning can help patients with a chronic, incurable disease to talk about their treatment wishes and end-of-life decisions in order to avoid inappropriate or unwanted care. Although patients and relatives indicate that they need these conversations, this is not always realised. An important finding is that patients expect their hospital physician to initiate these conversations because they themselves have insufficient knowledge ...
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, ...