Projects
- Cancer (17) Apply Cancer filter
- Communication & Advance Care Planning (23) Apply Communication & Advance Care Planning filter
- Community-based End-of-Life Care (6) Apply Community-based End-of-Life Care filter
- Early Palliative Care (15) Apply Early Palliative Care filter
- Euthanasia (5) Apply Euthanasia filter
- Older people and dementia (19) Apply Older people and dementia filter
- Palliative care needs (14) Apply Palliative care needs filter
- Pediatric Palliative Care (5) Apply Pediatric Palliative Care filter
- Place of Care and Place of Death (14) Apply Place of Care and Place of Death filter
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- Sedation (5) Apply Sedation filter
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Control measures for palliative sedation
Qualitative study into the views of physicians regarding control measures for palliative sedation
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CAREFuL - Implementing the Care Programme For the Last Days of Life in acute geriatric hospital wards in Flanders, Belgium
Improving the quality of end-of-life care in acute geriatric hospital wards in Flanders
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Supportive and palliative day care centres in Flanders: added value for users and health economic impact
Mapping whether palliative day care meets clients’ needs and has the potential to be economically viable
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Development and implementation of quality indicators for advance care planning, palliative care and end-of-life care in nursing homes in Flanders, Belgium
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Involvement of family carers’ in advance care planning
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pACP - Multi-center randomized controlled trial to test the effectiveness of family-centred advance care planning in adolescents with cancer and their parents
Developing an ACP intervention for the Belgian paediatric care context
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Advance care planning in patients with a chronic life-limiting illness in general practice: a RCT on the effectiveness of ACP on the quality of communication and concordance between preferred and delivered end-of-life care
A cluster-randomized controlled trial on the effects of ACP in general practice for patients with a chronic life-limiting illness
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Paediatric care at the end of life: a population-based analysis using quality indicators
Developing and validating three sets of quality indicators (QIs) for care at the end of life for children with cancer, neurological disorders and other life-threatening conditions
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Euthanasia Requests from Psychiatric Patients in Flanders: Motives, Experiences, Management, and Outcomes
Concerning psychiatric patients, the possibility of euthanasia gives rise to many ethical and juridical concerns regarding the adequate assessment and evaluation of all legal and due care criteria. E.g. the key criterion unbearable psychological suffering is still insufficiently understood. Given this wide range of fundamental concerns, it is striking that the euthanasia practice in psychiatric patients has only been studied superficially.
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An exploration of the nature and meaning of informal communities in cancer treatment
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PharmaNurse+
Improving medication use of nursing home residents with a life-limiting disease: a symptom-driven approach to multidisciplinary medication review
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Vital Coaching
Development, evaluation and implementation of a “Teach the Teacher” training module on “delivering bad news” within the Master-after-Master of Family Medicine, Flanders
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IPaC - Early integration of palliative care in oncology
Improving quality of life of patients with advanced cancer and their family carers. A randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effect of early and systematic integration of palliative care in oncology.
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Development of a practice tool for the improvement of palliative sedation practices in nursing homes
The research proposal is concerned with the development, validation and effectiveness of clinical practice guidelines forpalliative sedation in nursing homes aimed at improvement of care delivery by general practitioners
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INDUCT (EU Horizon 2020)
Interdisciplinary Network for Dementia Using Current Technology
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Developing and evaluating short-term palliative care for frail older people
Developing and testing the effectiveness of a specialist palliative care service for frail older people in primary care
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nELD - End-of-life decisions in stillbirths, neonates and infants: a population-based study in Flanders, Belgium
Occurrence and characteristics of end-of-life decisions in stillbirths, neonates and infants in Flanders, Belgium
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CARPCS - Caribbean Palliative Care Study
Palliative and EOL care in Trinidad and Tobago
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Evaluation of a complex intervention to initiate advance care planning in general practice for the improvement of end-of-life care
Evaluate and validate ACP intervention in terms of feasibility, acceptance to GPs and patients with a serious or life-threatening illness
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Care needs throughout the illness trajectory of people with cancer
Insights into what extent certain care needs are experienced from diagnosis onwards and the role of various care givers