Publications
Who finds the road to palliative home care support? A nationwide analysis on the use of supportive measures for palliative home care using linked administrative databases Vrije Universiteit Brussel Ghent University
Background
Many countries developed supportive measures for palliative home care, such as financial incentives or multidisciplinary palliative home care teams. For policy makers, it is important to evaluate the use of these national palliative home care supportive measures on a population level.
Methods and findings
Using routinely-collected data on all deaths in Belgium in 2012 (n = 107,847) we measured the use ...
Many countries developed supportive measures for palliative home care, such as financial incentives or multidisciplinary palliative home care teams. For policy makers, it is important to evaluate the use of these national palliative home care supportive measures on a population level.
Methods and findings
Using routinely-collected data on all deaths in Belgium in 2012 (n = 107,847) we measured the use ...
Palliative care for older people with dementia in nursing homes and at home : multi-country descriptive and interventional research Ghent University
What, how and from whom do health care professionals learn during collaboration in palliative home care : a cross-sectional study in primary palliative care Ghent University University of Antwerp
Does using the interRAI Palliative Care instrument reduce the needs and symptoms of nursing home residents receiving palliative care? KU Leuven Vrije Universiteit Brussel
© Cambridge University Press 2017. Objective: This study aimed to evaluate whether using the interRAI Palliative Care instrument (the interRAI PC) in nursing homes is associated with reduced needs and symptoms in residents nearing the end of their lives. Method: A quasi-experimental pretest-posttest study using the Palliative care Outcome Scale (POS) was conducted to compare the needs and symptoms of residents nearing the end of their lives in ...
Does using the interRAI Palliative Care instrument reduce the needs and symptoms of nursing home residents receiving palliative care? KU Leuven
This study aimed to evaluate whether using the interRAI Palliative Care instrument (the interRAI PC) in nursing homes is associated with reduced needs and symptoms in residents nearing the end of their lives.
Family carer support in home and hospital : a cross-sectional survey of specialised palliative care Ghent University Vrije Universiteit Brussel KU Leuven
Outcome Measures of Spiritual Care in Palliative Home Care: A Qualitative Study KU Leuven
The purpose of this study was to identify key outcome measures of spiritual care in palliative home care. A qualitative study was conducted with experts from 3 stakeholder groups (physicians, professional spiritual caregivers, and researchers) representing 2 countries (Belgium and The Netherlands). Three key outcome measures were identified: the extent to which the patient feels that he or she is being heard and taken seriously, the extent to ...
The interRAI CHESS scale is comparable to the palliative performance scale in predicting 90-day mortality in a palliative home care population KU Leuven Vrije Universiteit Brussel
BACKGROUND: Prognostic accuracy is important throughout all stages of the illness trajectory as it has implications for the timing of important conversations and decisions around care. Physicians often tend to over-estimate prognosis and may under-recognize palliative care (PC) needs. It is therefore essential that all relevant stakeholders have as much information available to them as possible when estimating prognosis. AIMS: The current study ...