BACKGROUND: Older people with multifaceted care needs often require treatment and complex care across different settings. However, transitional care is often inadequately managed, and older people and their informal caregivers are not always sufficiently heard and/or supported in transitional care decision-making. OBJECTIVE: To explore older people...
BACKGROUND: Two Forensic Psychiatric Centres (FPC) were implemented the last decade in Flanders in Ghent (2014) and Antwerp (2017). FPCs are forensic institutions for forensic psychiatric patients with a high recidivism risk and a high security need. The objective of FPCs is to create a care process with sufficient flow (from high to lower forms of...
status: published
The growing population of women with heart disease of reproductive age has been associated with an increasing number of high-risk pregnancies. Pregnant women with heart disease are a very heterogeneous population, with different risks for maternal cardiovascular, obstetric, and foetal complications. Adverse cardiovascular events during pregnancy po...
Published in European heart journal. Quality of care & clinical outcomes
To assess the adherence to established quality indicators (QIs) for ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) at the hospital-network level and its relation to outcome. The data of 7774 STEMI patients admitted to 32 STEMI networks during the period 2014-18 were extracted from the Belgian STEMI database. Five QIs [primary percutaneous coronary inte...
10.1186/s12933-021-01395-3 / CARDIOVASCULAR DIABETOLOGY / 20 / 1
Published in Annals of Intensive Care
BackgroundWhether Intensive Care Unit (ICU) clinicians display unconscious bias towards cancer patients is unknown. The aim of this study was to compare the outcomes of critically ill patients with and without perceptions of excessive care (PECs) by ICU clinicians in patients with and without cancer.MethodsThis study is a sub-analysis of the large ...
Introduction Given clinicians' frequent concerns about unfavourable outcomes, Intensive Care Unit (ICU) triage decisions in acutely ill cancer patients can be difficult, as clinicians may have doubts about the appropriateness of an ICU admission. To aid to this decision making, we studied the survival and performance status of cancer patients 2 yea...
Care maps (CMs), which are innovative, comprehensive, educational, and simple medical tools, were developed for 6 common diseases, including heart failure, stroke, hyperglycemia, urinary tract infection, dengue infection, and upper gastrointestinal bleeding, were implemented in a short-stay ambulatory ward. This study aimed to investigate the effec...
Показано, что на этапе разработки стратегии приема абитуриентов в современных условиях важное место занимает формирование стратегического намерения. Названы две стратегические задачи и на обсуждение вынесены пути их решения. Для удержания своих позиций, формирования конкурентных преимуществ и расширения своего присутствия в образовательном простран...
