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Latest publications

The need for integrating palliative care in ageing and dementia policies.
Factors associated with the goal of treatment in the last week of life in old compared to very old patients: a population-based death certificate survey.
Descriptions by General Practitioners and Nurses of Their Collaboration in Continuous Sedation Until Death at Home. In-Depth Qualitative Interviews in Three European Countries.
Hospitalizations of nursing home residents with dementia in the last month of life: Results from a nationwide survey.

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

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)

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

Nieuwsbrief: EOL Notes

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