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Latest publications

Burden on family carers and care-related financial strain at the end of life: a cross-national population-based study.
Re: A response to Willis et al.
Forgoing artificial nutrition or hydration at the end of life: a large cross-sectional survey in Belgium.
Quality of dying in nursing home residents dying with dementia: does advanced care planning matter? A nationwide postmortem study.

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 Place of Death Study (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)

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)

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)

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

Nieuwsbrief: EOL Notes

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