Comment l’hôpital Avicenne de Bobigny, dans l’un des départements les plus touchés par l’épidémie de Covid-19 et les plus pauvres, s’est-il adapté à des besoins immenses ? Gestion du flux des patients, mise en place de dispositifs pour faciliter l’accès aux soins, collaboration avec la médecine de ville et les associations… Deux médecins nous racon...
Published in BMJ Open
Objectives This paper aims to investigate resident, facility and country characteristics associated with length of stay in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) across six European countries. Setting Data from a cross-sectional study of deceased residents, conducted in LTCFs in Belgium, England, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland. Participants ...
Published in Acta chirurgica Belgica
Advantages of ambulatory surgery are lost when patients need an unplanned admission. This retrospective cohort study investigated reasons for failed discharge and unanticipated admission of adult patients after day surgery. Ambulatory patients (n = 145) requiring unanticipated admission were compared to patients (n = 4980) not requiring admission a...
Published in PloS one
Most of the evidence on antimicrobial stewardship programmes (ASP) to help sustain the effectiveness of antimicrobials is generated in high income countries. We report a study investigating implementation of ASP in secondary care across low-, middle- and high-income countries. The objective of this study was to map the key contextual, including cul...
Background: Since Belgium legalised euthanasia, the number of performed euthanasia cases for psychological suffering in psychiatric patients has significantly increased, as well as the number of media reports on controversial cases. This has prompted several healthcare organisations and committees to develop policies on the management of these requ...
© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Under Belgian law, offenders deemed to lack criminal responsibility because of insanity receive mandated treatment under the internment law. Population profiles of these forensic patients (‘internees’) are, however, very scarce. In this study, we analysed the demographic, clinica...
Published in npj Digital Medicine
Effective sharing of clinical information between care providers is a critical component of a safe, efficient health system. National data-sharing systems may be costly, politically contentious and do not reflect local patterns of care delivery. This study examines hospital attendances in England from 2013 to 2015 to identify instances of patient s...
Purpose Research in psychology or management science has shown that shared leadership (SL) enhances information sharing, fosters participation and empowers team members within the decision-making processes, ultimately improving the quality of performance outcomes. Little has been done and, thus, less is known of the value and use of SL in acute hea...
Published in International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health
ObjectivesAlthough social capital approach has showed its merits in predicting well-being and health in the working environment, studies examining the relation between social capital and burnout are scarce and limited to cross-sectional studies in the health care sector. This study aims to explore the longitudinal relationship between workplace soc...
