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News and events

Nog enkele plaatsen vrij op FLIECE congres "Hoe de palliatieve zorg verbeteren in Vlaanderen" op 29 en 30 januari 2015
EURO IMPACT: fellow Lara Pivodic presented at the European Public Health Conference 2014
EURO IMPACT: new publication: Computer-Based Clinical Decision Support Systems and Patient-Reported Outcomes: A Systematic Review

Latest publications

International Variation in Place of Death of Older People Who Died From Dementia in 14 European and non-European Countries.
Care provided and care setting transitions in the last three months of life of cancer patients: a nationwide monitoring study in four European countries.
Characteristics of Belgian "life-ending acts without explicit patient request": a large-scale death certificate survey revisited.
Physician-related barriers to communication and patient and family-centred decision making towards the end of life in intensive care: a systematic review.

Current projects

ACTION: Advance Care Planning – an Innovative Palliative Care Intervention to Improve Quality of Life in Oncology (EU-FP7)

PACE - comparing the effectiveness of PAlliative Care for Elderly people in long-term care facilities in europe

Kwaliteitsindicatoren voor palliatieve zorg in Vlaanderen

EPCCS - European Palliative Care Cancer Symptom study (PRC Trondheim, NO)

EUROIMPACT - On your way to an international PhD in palliative care (EU FP7 Marie Curie)

EURO SENTIMELC - Monitor End-of-Life Care within Europe via GPs (FWO)

IPoD - International Place of Death Study (FWO)

A population-level evaluation of the quality and cost-effectiveness of end-of-life care (FWO)

Communication about the end of life in nursing homes: a cluster randomised controlled trial (FWO)

Conversations of terminal status (FWO)

Distress and Quality of Life in the diagnostic phase and before start of therapy in suspected lung cancer patients

Effect of early palliative care on quality of life in advanced cancer: RCT (FWO)

Ethical aspects of research involving palliative and/or dying patients (BOF)

FLIECE - Flanders Study to Improve End-of-Life Care and Evaluation Tools (IWT-SBO)

Palliative sedation: practice, perspectives and guidelines (FWO)

Public views on end-of-life care (VUB HOA)

Nieuwsbrief: EOL Notes

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