Projecten
Monitoring and Evaluation of a mobile Clinical Decision Making Support System (CDMSS) intervention for frontline providers of maternal and neonatal care in the Eastern region (ER) of Ghana Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Identifying best practices for care-dependent elderly by Benchmarking Costs and outcomes of community care KU Leuven
Problem:
The need for cost effective health systems in Europe is imperative in the context of an increasing demand for health care by growing numbers of elderly people and a shrinking working force. Many health care systems are changing and looking for mechanisms to ensure, measure and improve the quality of care. On the other hand it is unclear which models of care delivery are the most cost-effective. To enable lower public spending ...
Verbetering van de palliatieve zorg op de intensive care KU Leuven
About 10% of all decedents in the population die after admission to an intensive care unit (ICU). These patients often have distressing symptoms and may receive more intense life-prolonging treatment than they would have chosen, their family members often experience lasting distress from the experience and many ICU physicians and nurses are burdened by their perception of potentially non-beneficial care.
The EPIC project aims to ...
Co-design and evaluation of improved information tools to support better monitoring of inpatient newborn care Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Care for sick newborns is typically provided by multi-professional teams that are required to adhere to best practises and these babies could spend many days in the neonatal unit. While care is often planned by a team of clinicians, nurses are the primary care givers in newborn units and thus accurate documentation of nursing care and patient progress plays an important role in both provision of quality care and team ...
Inequalities in access to hospital for childbirth care in sub-Saharan Africa Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Strengthening the role of local health systems to improve chronic disease care for urban poor in India Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Impact on equity of access and efficiency of Integrated Health care Networks (IHN) in Colombia and Brazil. Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
The research focuses on different types of integrated health care networks (IHN), widely promoted in Latin America in spite of lack of knowledge on their impact. It will look at their impact on equity and efficiency, and its implication for an universal and equitable access to maternal and child care. Research general objective is to provide evidence on the impact of different types of integrated health care networks (IHN) to a) health care ...