A5017218959- Poisoning and overdose treatments
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Health, Medicine and Society
- Central Venous Catheters and Hemodialysis
- Burn Injury Management and Outcomes
- Plant-based Medicinal Research
- Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity
- Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
- Dutch Social and Cultural Studies
- Alcoholism and Thiamine Deficiency
- Health Services Management and Policy
- Paraquat toxicity studies and treatments
- Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Restraint-Related Deaths
- Drug-Induced Hepatotoxicity and Protection
- Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Workplace Health and Well-being
- Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes
- Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis
- Healthcare Systems and Practices
Ghent University
2019-2021
Belgian Road Research Centre
2021
Washington Poison Center
2021
Hasselt University
2019
Ghent University Hospital
2019
The public sector requires job crafting from employees so that they can better cope with overdemanding jobs due to layer upon of management reforms. Simultaneously, however, red tape and austerity constrain autonomy. This study therefore tests how be fostered in organizations by studying social resources at work and, specifically, empowering leadership support. Multilevel analyses based on survey data 1,059 nurses 67 elderly care Flanders, Belgium, show support contribute simultaneously,...
The aims of this study were to assess the characteristics all acute poisoning admissions among adult emergency department (ED) patients, identify factors associated with admission and calculate direct medical cost.Data 2017 (1st January 31st December) collected analyzed retrospectively using patients' records hospital invoices. Factors type hospitalization identified appropriate statistics.A total 1,214 included, accounting for 3.6% ED admissions. Men (62.2%) age group 21-40 years (43.0%)...
Background Public health emergencies often affect Poison Control Centre (PCC) operations. We examined possible effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on call volume, characteristics, and workload in European PCCs.Method All 65 individual PCCs were requested to supply data number calls characteristics (caller, age groups, reason specific exposures) from March June 2018, 2019, 2020 (Part 1). Number with was normalised all calls. Calls (N) (%) compared between 2018/2019...
Objective: Aims were to (1) analyse the direct cost charged by a university hospital government and patient in case of an admission for acute poisoning, (2) identify factors associated with cost, (3) compare studied national data from government.Methods: Patient records invoices all poisoning-related episodes patients 14 years or older admitted Emergency Department (ED) Ghent University Hospital (GUH) 2017 analysed. A generalised linear model gamma loglink was applied assess variables cost....
Aims were (1) to assess the characteristics, associated factors and compliance of patients with acute poisoning advised by Belgian Poison Centre (BPC) go (conditionally) hospital, (2) potential health-economic impact.Three types referrals hospital who called BPC between 1 January 30 June 2018 analysed: in case deterioration patient's condition (Hosp-watchful-wait), (Hosp-referral) or urgent (Hosp-urgent-referral). Factors type recommendation registered. A survey was conducted on a second...
The authors discuss law and ethics when medical decisions are to be taken by patients who unable in any valid sense express their own wishes. main problem legal terms is protect an individual's free will as far possible ensure that his or her wishes, if known, respected. If a patient's independent wishes cannot then we must at least nothing imposed which not interest. Legal measures, however, from adequate resolving all the concrete problems emerge. field of does bring some better adapted...