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
The design of efficient and effective algorithms for capacity planning in the health care sector. KU Leuven
Development of an interactive tool for patient-specific surgical treatment planning in kidney cancer Ghent University
Virtual planning of surgical procedures will be the future in a world where personalized patient care is on the rise. To boost this transition in the treatment of kidney cancer, we propose an interactive, patient-specific tool that guides surgeons towards the most optimal surgical approach to improve patient outcome as well as patient involvement and education (to make patients better understand their own pathology and surgery). The virtual ...
Elective surgery planning and scheduling: problems, formulations and algorithms. KU Leuven
Advanced resource planning in the healthcare sector: impact of time-varying demand. KU Leuven
Experiences of corporality and embodiment in the care for female Islamic patients from Turkish and Moroccan descent: a multi-perspective qualitative study in acute care units of general hospitals in Flanders, Belgium. KU Leuven
The phenomenon of ethnic-cultural diversity in Flanders brings brought about many challenges. A particular challenge is situated on the level of hospital care for female Islamic immigrant patients from Turkish and Moroccan descent. Here, physicians and nurses are being confronted with ethnic-cultural challenges in the field of diagnostic and therapeutic treatment and care (like gender issues in gynecological research, or treatment plan ...