A5050319029- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Patient Dignity and Privacy
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
- Pharmaceutical studies and practices
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Antibiotic Use and Resistance
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Dermatological diseases and infestations
- Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
- Ethics in medical practice
- Clinical practice guidelines implementation
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Medication Adherence and Compliance
- Electronic Health Records Systems
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- linguistics and terminology studies
- Peripheral Artery Disease Management
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
Ghent University
2015-2024
Institute of Pharmacology
2007-2024
Ghent University Hospital
2013-2023
Research in Advanced Medical Informatics and Telematics
2017-2021
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
2011-2021
Universität Hamburg
2018
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
2018
Cochrane
2013
E Ink (South Korea)
2007
University of Antwerp
2004-2006
<h3>Background and objective:</h3> Indicators to measure the quality of healthcare are increasingly used by professionals policy makers. In context increasing antimicrobial resistance, this study aimed develop valid drug-specific indicators for outpatient antibiotic use in Europe, derived from European Surveillance Antimicrobial Consumption (ESAC) data. <h3>Methods:</h3> 27 experts (15 countries), a Science Foundation workshop, built on expertise within Drug Utilisation Research Group,...
Objectives: To collect reliable, comparable and publicly available data on hospital use of antibiotics in Europe aggregated at the national level (1997–2002). Methods: Consumption systemic Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) class J01 were collected expressed defined daily doses (DDD) per 1000 inhabitants day. Valid for 2002 15 countries, 6 year trends 10 countries. Comparison with ambulatory care (AC) consumption was possible 14 Results: In 2002, median antibiotic 2.1 DDD/1000...
In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), data on hypertension prevalence in terms of urban or rural and sex difference are lacking, heterogeneous contradictory. addition, there no accurate estimates burden.To estimate the age-specific sex-specific arterial SSA adult populations.We searched for population studies, conducted from 1998 through 2008 SSA. We extracted selected studies available prevalences used a logistic regression model to all age/sex/habitat (urban/rural)/country-specific up 2025. On...
Background The long-term and often lifelong relationship of general practitioners (GPs) with their patients is considered to make them the ideal initiators advance care planning (ACP). However, in incidence ACP discussions low seems occur more for cancer than those dementia or heart failure. Objective To identify barriers, from GPs' perspective, initiating gain insight into any differences barriers between trajectories cancer, failure dementia. Method Five focus groups were held GPs (n = 36)...
Background Advance care planning is considered a central component of good quality palliative and especially relevant for people who lose the capacity to make decisions at end life, which case many nursing home residents with dementia. We set out investigate what extent (1) advance in form written patient directives verbal communication and/or relatives about future (2) existence general practitioner orders are related dying Methods Cross-sectional study deaths (2010) using random...
Little is known about the impact of inappropriate prescribing (IP) in community-dwelling adults, aged 80 years and older. The prevalence at baseline (November 2008September 2009) IP (misuse underuse) after 18 months on mortality hospitalization a cohort older (n = 503) was studied.Screening Tool Older People's Prescriptions (STOPP-2, misuse) Screening to Alert Right Treatment (START-2, criteria were cross-referenced linked medication use (in Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical coding) clinical...
Europe is a continent with strong public healthcare systems, but diverging antibiotic policies and resistance patterns.To describe the performance methodological approach in retrospective data collection effort (1997-2001), through an international network of surveillance aiming to collect publicly available, comparable reliable on use Europe.A central multidisciplinary management team co-ordinated national representatives, liasing providers bodies responsible for policy. The collected were...
Objectives : Exploring terminal patients' perceptions of GPs' role in delivering continuous end-of-life care and identifying barriers to this. Design Qualitative interview study with patients (two consecutive interviews). Setting Primary Belgium. Participants Seventeen terminally ill cancer patients, informed about diagnosis prognosis. Results Terminal attribute a pivotal GPs different aspects two types continuity. Relational continuity: having an ongoing relationship the same GP, which...
The ESAC project (European Study on Antibiotic Consumption) aims to collect antibiotic-use data through a European network of national surveillance systems. This paper reports the retrospective collection in ambulatory care for period 1997-2002.Valid antibiotic consumption 24 countries 2002 and 18 entire 6-year was classified according Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification (ATC) expressed defined daily dose (DDD) per 1000 inhabitants day (DID). Overall subgroup comparison over time...
Abstract Objective To determine the prevalence of psychotropic drug use in Belgian nursing homes, relation to residents' and institutional characteristics. Methods The PHEBE project (Prescribing Homes for Elderly Belgium, 2005) was a cross‐sectional study, investigating 76 homes. Psychotropics were categorised into antidepressants, antipsychotics, benzodiazepines anti‐dementia drugs using ATC classification. Results Residents' mean age ( n = 1730) 85 (SD: 8) years 78% female. overall among...