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The Development of an Empathy Curriculum (Empathy in Health) for Healthcare Students Using VR Technology Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Alexia Papageorgiou, Julia Leinweber, Kerstin Böhm, Constantina Constantinou, Ourania Kolokotroni, Eleni Kapreli, Constantina Savvoulidou, Nikos Strimpakos, Christiana Knais, Melissa Horlait, et al.
Empathy in Health is an Erasmus + funded project, which aims to design a curriculum for empathetic skill development in healthcare practitioners and home carers based on up-to-date evidence and cutting-edge technology tools. A literature review was carried out that focused on empathy in health care using VR technology. The results of the literature review helped develop a focus group guide for the purposes of the qualitative part of the need ...

Development, Testing, and Implementation of the Belgian Patient Reported Experience Measure for Pancreatic Cancer Care (PREPARE) Project Vrije Universiteit Brussel Universiteit Antwerpen

Katrien Moens, Marc Peeters, Marc van den Bulcke, Mark Leys, Melissa Horlait

BACKGROUND: Patients with pancreatic cancer do not feel involved in the development of their treatment and care plans. In Belgium, these plans are decided on during multidisciplinary team meetings. However, limited time is spent on the discussion of the preferences of the patient during these meetings. This research project aims to develop a patient-reported experience measure (PREM) for pancreatic cancer and assess if its use can support ...

Health Care Organizations’ Interoperability during Multi-Organizational Disaster Management: A Scoping Review Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Silvana Gastaldi, Melissa Horlait

Introduction: Disaster management (DM) is becoming increasingly complex because of technological advancement and the multi-organization and international contexts. Effective interoperability and adequate collaboration in DM have the potential to spare the human life and to control the economic burden. For those reasons, it's becoming important to find a way for systems and organizations that exploit, at the same time, the technological ...

Development of a Patient Reported Experience Measure (PREM) for Chronic Inflammatory Skin Diseases. Vrije Universiteit Brussel KU Leuven

Ellen Van Den Steen, Dirk Ramaekers, Melissa Horlait, Jan Gutermuth
Background: Patient involvement and high-quality patient-provider interactions are critical factors for quality of care in chronic inflammatory skin diseases. Also, assessing the patient's perspective contributes to optimizing care delivery and patient's experience. Until today, no user-friendly tools to measure patient experiences exist within immunodermatology.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to identify the relevant items for ...

Exploring non-physician care professionals' roles in cancer multidisciplinary team meetings: A qualitative study. Vrije Universiteit Brussel Universiteit Gent

Melissa Horlait, Melissa De Regge, Saskia Baes, Kristof Eekloo, Mark Leys

The growing complexity of cancer care necessitates collaboration among different professionals. This interprofessional collaboration improves cancer care delivery and outcomes. Treatment decision-making within the context of a multidisciplinaire team meeting (MDTMs) may be seen as a particular form of interprofessional collaboration. Various studies on cancer MDTMs highlight a pattern of suboptimal information sharing between attendants. To ...

Physicians’ attitudes and perspectives regarding the uptake of psychosocial aspects and/or patient preferences during multidisciplinary team meetings in oncology Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Saskia Baes, Melissa Horlait, Mark Leys
Introduction: Coordinating cancer care is challenging because of its complexity. To partly encounter this complexity,multidisciplinary team meetings (MDTMs) were implemented to evaluate diagnosis, discuss treatment options and collectively decide upon the most optimal patient care and treatment plan. In cancer trajectories, medical professionals have a coordinating role and final decision responsibility. As a consequence patient-centred ...

Are future medical oncologists sufficiently trained to communicate about palliative care? The medical oncology curriculum in Flanders, Belgium. Vrije Universiteit Brussel Universiteit Gent

Melissa Horlait, Simon Van Belle, Mark Leys

Background: Palliative care is considered an integral part of oncology and communicating this with patients is an unavoidable task for oncologists. This contribution investigated to what extent communication skills for communicating palliative care with patients are trained in the formal academic training program in medical oncology in Flanders, Belgium. The programme is based on the recommendations for a Global Core Curriculum in Medical ...

Palliative care communication in oncology departments in Flanders, Belgium Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Melissa Horlait
Palliative care is the active, total care for patients (and their relatives) whose disease is not responsive to curative treatment(s). Early initiated palliative care has the potential to improve the quality of life of patients and their relatives through timely identification of emerging needs and problems of physical, psychosocial and spiritual nature. Yet, for many cancer patients palliative care is initiated late in their disease course or ...