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Latest publications

Continuous sedation until death: the everyday moral reasoning of physicians, nurses and family caregivers in the UK, The Netherlands and Belgium.
The acute hospital setting as a place of death and final care: A qualitative study on perspectives of family physicians, nurses and family carers.
Early identification of palliative care needs by family physicians: A qualitative study of barriers and facilitators from the perspective of family physicians, community nurses, and patients.
What justifies a hospital admission at the end of life? A focus group study on perspectives of family physicians and nurses.

Current projects

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

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 Study of Place of Death (FWO)

PACE - Palliative care for older people in long term care facilities in Europe (EU-FP7)

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

Dying Well with Dementia (VUB GOA)

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

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)

Quality Indicators for Palliative Care: development, evaluation and implementation (VLK)

Nieuwsbrief: EOL Notes

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