Research Group | End-of-Life Care

Research Group

News and events

Latest publications

Does legal physician-assisted dying impede development of palliative care? The Belgian and Benelux experience.
End-of-Life Decisions in Individuals Dying with Dementia in Belgium.
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.

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

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

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

INTEGRATE - Integration of palliative care into home, nursing home and hospital care and into the community (IWT)

IPaC: Effect of integrated palliative care on quality of life in advanced cancer: a randomized controlled trial (FWO)

Palliative sedation: practice, perspectives and guidelines (FWO)

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

Nieuwsbrief: EOL Notes

Stay informed on our latest news!

Previous issues