A5052914265- Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Innovations in Medical Education
- Urinary Tract Infections Management
- Pharmaceutical studies and practices
- Medication Adherence and Compliance
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Sleep and related disorders
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Health and Medical Research Impacts
- Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
- Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare
- Antibiotic Use and Resistance
- Treatment of Major Depression
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Dutch Social and Cultural Studies
- Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention
- Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
- Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research
- Pelvic floor disorders treatments
- Frailty in Older Adults
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- Migraine and Headache Studies
Ghent University
2015-2024
Ghent University Hospital
2009-2024
European Association for the Study of Diabetes
2020-2022
Belgian Road Research Centre
2005-2016
Institute of Pharmacology
2016
Primary Health Care
2013
Association Pharmaceutique Belge
2013
Polypharmacy is common among older people. The purpose of this study to describe GPs' views and beliefs on polypharmacy in order identify the role GP relation improving prescribing behaviour. awareness these often established key for understanding behaviour promoting change which can guide action towards more rational prescribing. A qualitative descriptive methodology was used with semi-structured interviews. Interviews were conducted 65 GPs from region Aalst, a district mixed urban rural...
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...
European medical students should have acquired adequate prescribing competencies before graduation, but it is not known whether this the case. In international multicenter study, we evaluated essential knowledge, skills, and attitudes in clinical pharmacology therapeutics (CPT) of final-year across Europe. a cross-sectional design, 26 schools from 17 countries were asked to administer standardized assessment questionnaire 50 students. Although there differences between schools, our results...
Data regarding the contents of home medication cabinets (HMCs), management leftover medications, and inclination patients toward self-initiated treatment using nonprescription drugs are scarce.To evaluate nature safety storage intended self-medication in a general population.A cross-sectional study was conducted 72 Belgian community pharmacies. Pharmacy customers (N = 288, aged 18-80 y) were visited their homes by pharmacy students. The HMCs inventoried participants interviewed.A mean 31 +/-...
Effective teaching in pharmacology and clinical therapeutics (CPT) is necessary to make medical students competent prescribers. However, the current structure, delivery, assessment of CPT education European Union (EU) unknown. We sent an online questionnaire teachers with overall responsibility for EU schools. Questions focused on undergraduate CPT, students' preparedness prescribing. In all, 185 schools (64%) from 27 countries responded. Traditional learning methods were mainly used. The...
Objective. Chronic benzodiazepine (BZD) use is widespread and linked with adverse effects. There consensus concerning the importance of initiating BZD as a crucial moment. Nevertheless specific research in this field lacking. This paper addresses views GPs on why they start prescribing BZDs to first-time users. Design. Qualitative study five focus groups analysed using systematic content analysis. Setting. Regions Ghent Brussels Belgium. Subjects. A total 35 general practitioners. Main...
To describe the current status of regulatory reliance in Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) by assessing countries' frameworks to approve new medicines, ascertain, for each country, which foreign regulators are considered as trusted authorities rely on.Websites from LAC were searched identify official regulations drugs. Data collection was carried out December 2019 completed June 2020 countries. Two independent teams collected information regarding direct recognition or abbreviated processes...
To describe medication management among home-dwelling older adults. These data should allow us to identify potential problems and indicate target areas for community pharmacist intervention.
Quantification of the anticholinergic exposure insufficiently or imprecisely incorporates dosage information, leading to inaccurate estimations. The aim was construct a novel scale, including potency and for quantification in older adults. Potency information retrieved from previous systematic review. range each drug delineated minimal, maintenance maximal adults Dosage collected authoritative sources reviewed an expert panel. Muscarinic Acetylcholinergic Receptor ANTagonist Exposure...
Objective – To compare four recent guidelines on uncomplicated cystitis and to examine how cultural factors may have affected recommendations.Design Descriptive study with a qualitative analysis of authors' reasons for recommendations.Material Guidelines general practitioners published 1999–2000 from Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, Belgium diagnosis treatment cystitis. Opinions the guideline authors influence local recommendations were collected before after feedback differences between...
<b>Objective:</b> To evaluate the effect on antibiotic prescribing of an intervention in existing local quality circles promoting evidence-based guideline for acute rhinosinusitis. <b>Design:</b> A pragmatic cluster-randomised controlled trial comparing standard dissemination by mail with additional strategy using circles. <b>Setting:</b> General practice Flanders, Belgium. <b>Participants:</b> practitioners (GPs) 18 were randomly allocated to two study arms. All GPs received mail. nine arm...
Abstract The increasing availability of medical evidence in clinical practice was expected to improve the quality care. However, this has not been realized. A possible explanation is that care a complex concept and needs wider scope. Starting from Donabedian triangle structure, process outcome, framework for analysis presented. need three types identified discussed: medical, contextual policy evidence. Although body increasing, it major flaws gaps hampering its applicability primary There...