Projects
- Cancer (20) Apply Cancer filter
- Communication & Advance Care Planning (27) Apply Communication & Advance Care Planning filter
- Community-based End-of-Life Care (7) Apply Community-based End-of-Life Care filter
- Early Palliative Care (16) Apply Early Palliative Care filter
- Euthanasia (7) Apply Euthanasia filter
- Older people and dementia (21) Apply Older people and dementia filter
- Palliative care needs (19) Apply Palliative care needs filter
- Pediatric Palliative Care (5) Apply Pediatric Palliative Care filter
- Place of Care and Place of Death (18) Apply Place of Care and Place of Death filter
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Involvement of family carers’ in advance care planning
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Advance care planning in patients with a chronic life-limiting illness in general practice: a RCT on the effectiveness of ACP on the quality of communication and concordance between preferred and delivered end-of-life care
A cluster-randomized controlled trial on the effects of ACP in general practice for patients with a chronic life-limiting illness
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Euthanasia Requests from Psychiatric Patients in Flanders: Motives, Experiences, Management, and Outcomes
Concerning psychiatric patients, the possibility of euthanasia gives rise to many ethical and juridical concerns regarding the adequate assessment and evaluation of all legal and due care criteria. E.g. the key criterion unbearable psychological suffering is still insufficiently understood. Given this wide range of fundamental concerns, it is striking that the euthanasia practice in psychiatric patients has only been studied superficially.
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An exploration of the nature and meaning of informal communities in cancer treatment
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PharmaNurse+
Improving medication use of nursing home residents with a life-limiting disease: a symptom-driven approach to multidisciplinary medication review
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Vital Coaching
Development, evaluation and implementation of a “Teach the Teacher” training module on “delivering bad news” within the Master-after-Master of Family Medicine, Flanders
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IPaC - Early integration of palliative care in oncology
Improving quality of life of patients with advanced cancer and their family carers. A randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effect of early and systematic integration of palliative care in oncology.
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Development of a practice tool for the improvement of palliative sedation practices in nursing homes
The research proposal is concerned with the development, validation and effectiveness of clinical practice guidelines forpalliative sedation in nursing homes aimed at improvement of care delivery by general practitioners
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INDUCT (EU Horizon 2020)
Interdisciplinary Network for Dementia Using Current Technology
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Developing and evaluating short-term palliative care for frail older people
Developing and testing the effectiveness of a specialist palliative care service for frail older people in primary care
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nELD - End-of-life decisions in stillbirths, neonates and infants: a population-based study in Flanders, Belgium
Occurrence and characteristics of end-of-life decisions in stillbirths, neonates and infants in Flanders, Belgium
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CARPCS - Caribbean Palliative Care Study
Palliative and EOL care in Trinidad and Tobago
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Evaluation of a complex intervention to initiate advance care planning in general practice for the improvement of end-of-life care
Evaluate and validate ACP intervention in terms of feasibility, acceptance to GPs and patients with a serious or life-threatening illness
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Care needs throughout the illness trajectory of people with cancer
Insights into what extent certain care needs are experienced from diagnosis onwards and the role of various care givers
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The end of life of older people with cancer in long term care facilities and at home: current state of affairs in Flanders
Epidemiological framework of older people in Flanders who die with cancer
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Trends in euthanasia practice in Belgium
Prevalence and major background characteristics and evolutions of the euthanasia practice in Belgium
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Implementing quality indicators into specialized palliative care services at home and in hospitals in Flanders, Belgium
A mixed-method process evaluation of the implementation making use of the RE-AIM framework
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A population-level evaluation of the quality of end-of-life care
Development and evaluation of quality indicators of end-of-life care and map healthcare costs in Belgium
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ACTION (EU FP7)
Advance Care Planning - An Innovative Palliative Care Intervention to Improve Quality of Life in Oncology
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Ethical aspects of research involving palliative and/or dying patients
Ethical issues of empirical research (clinical, quantitative and qualitative) involving terminally ill