A5002556560- Healthcare Quality and Management
- Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues
- Patient Safety and Medication Errors
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Clinical practice guidelines implementation
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- Hip and Femur Fractures
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Disaster Response and Management
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments
- Enhanced Recovery After Surgery
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
- Delphi Technique in Research
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
- Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries
- Occupational Health and Safety Research
- Myasthenia Gravis and Thymoma
KU Leuven
2016-2025
Victim Support
2022
Total (France)
2022
European Pathway Association
2021
Flemish Community
2020
Abstract Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) may aggravate workplace conditions that impact health-care workers’ mental health. However, it can also place other stresses on workers outside of their work. This study determines the effect COVID-19 symptoms negative and positive health workforce’s experience with various sources support. Effect modification by demographic variables was studied. Methods A cross-sectional survey study, conducted between 2 April 4 May 2020 (two...
The concept of second victims (SV) was introduced 20 years ago to draw attention healthcare professionals involved in patient safety incidents. objective this paper is advance the theoretical conceptualization and develop a common definition. A literature search performed Medline, EMBASE CINAHL (October 2010 November 2020). description SV extracted regarding three concepts: (1) persons, (2) content action (3) impact. Based on these concepts, definition proposed discussed within ERNST-COST...
Objectives To describe healthcare providers’ symptoms evoked by patient safety incidents (PSIs), the duration of these and association with degree harm caused incident. Design Cross-sectional survey. Setting 32 Dutch hospitals that participate in ‘Peer Support Collaborative’. Participants 4369 providers (1619 doctors 2750 nurses) involved a PSI at any time during their career. Interventions All nurses working direct care participating were invited via email to an online Primary secondary...
The second victim (SV) experience limits the performance of health and care workers places patients at risk. Peer support is recognised as most effective, feasible acceptable intervention to mitigate its impact. To define a set success factors when designing interventions SVs in facilities based on expertise different European countries. International collaboration involving countries with diverse cultures, structures legal frameworks. Qualitative research. Focus groups total 43 participants...
An increased need for efficiency and effectiveness in today's healthcare system urges professionals to improve the organization of care. Care pathways are an important tool achieve this. The overall aim this study was analyze if care lead better processes. For this, Process Self-Evaluation (CPSET) used evaluate how perceive Based on information from 2692 health gathered between November 2007 October 2011 we audited 261 processes 108 organizations. Multilevel analysis compare without with led...
Abstract Aim The aim of this improvement collaborative is to explore the variation in care within and between Flemish hospitals preoperative assessment, surgical indications, perioperative management technique for ventral mesh rectopexy (VMR). Method This observational, cross‐sectional multicentre study was performed 14 hospitals. Twenty consecutive patients per hospital undergoing primary VMR 2022 were included. Quality assessed via predefined disease‐specific quality indicators (QIs) by...
Current in-hospital management of exacerbations COPD is suboptimal, and patient outcomes are poor. The primary aim this study was to evaluate whether implementation a care pathway (CP) for improves the 6 months readmission rate. Secondary were 30 days rate, mortality, length stay adherence guidelines.An international cluster randomized controlled trial performed in Belgium, Italy Portugal. General hospitals randomly assigned an intervention group where CP implemented or control usual...
Care pathway implementation is characterised by a dual complexity. A care itself represents complex intervention with multiple interacting and interdependent components outcomes. The organisations in which pathways are being implemented represent systems that need to be directed at change through an in-depth understanding of their external internal context they functioning in. This study sets out new evidence-based pragmatic framework unpacks how mechanisms, fidelity converge processes...
ARTICLE Involvement of health-care professionals in an adverse event... 313phenomenon can have on a care provider's personal and professional life.Care providers suffer from guilt, anger, psychological distress, fear, insomnia, long -term consequences similar to post traumatic stress disorder, which often results significant functional impairment. 8,10,11here be negative impact their patients, colleagues, supervisors, managers, organization as well. 10The prevalence the second victim...
The term second victim (SV) describes healthcare professionals who remain traumatized after being involved in a patient safety incident (PSI). They can experience various emotional, psychological, and physical symptoms. phenomenon is quite common; it has been estimated that half of hospital workers will be an SV at least once their career. Because recent literature reported high prevalence (>30%) among nursing students, we studied the whole population students.We conducted cross-sectional...
Guideline adherence rates for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation are low. The aim this study is to perform an importance-performance analysis as approach prioritisation interventions by linking guidelines expert consensus in-hospital management COPD exacerbation. We illustrate relevance such describing variation in guideline across indicators and hospitals. A secondary data patients with acute admitted Belgian, Italian Portuguese hospitals was...
Abstract Background Patient safety can be increased by improving the organization of care. A tool that evaluates actual care, as perceived multidisciplinary teams, is Care Process Self-Evaluation Tool (CPSET). CPSET was developed in 2007 and includes 29 items five subscales: (a) patient-focused organization, (b) coordination care process, (c) collaboration with primary (d) communication patients family, (e) follow-up process. The goal present study to further evaluate psychometric properties...
Abstract Purpose Despite the availability of clinical guidelines for hip fracture patients, adherence to these is challenging, potentially resulting in suboptimal patient care. The goal this study was (1) evaluate and benchmark recently established quality indicators (QIs), (2) outcomes, fragile patients from different European countries. Methods This observational, cross-sectional multicenter performed 10 hospitals 9 countries including data 298 consecutive patients. Results A large...
Objective: This multicenter study aimed to assess (1) the effect of an improvement collaborative on enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocol adherence elective colectomy and (2) association between patient outcomes. Background: ERAS pathways provide a framework standardize care processes improve postoperative outcomes in patients colon surgery. Despite growing evidence its effectiveness, these guidelines remains challenge. Methods: prospective, was initiated throughout 11 hospitals...
Background: A focus on specific priorities increases the success rate of quality improvement efforts for broad and complex-care processes. Importance-performance analysis presents a possible approach to set around which design implement effective initiatives. Persistent variation in hospital performance makes ST-elevation myocardial infarction care relevant consider importance-performance analysis. Aims: The purpose this study was identify care. Methods: Importance levels key interventions...