Researcher
Joachim Cohen
- Research Expertise:
- Euthanasia and other end-of-life decisions
- Place of death
- Public health
- Palliative and end-of-life care
- Big data
- Family caregiving
- Health services research
- Quality Indicators and quality of healthcare assessment
- Keywords:Political and social sciences, Social medicine, public health and health care sciences
- Disciplines:Public health care not elsewhere classified, Public health sciences not elsewhere classified, Health and community services, Palliative care and end-of-life care, Elderly care, Primary health care, Mortality and health
- Users of research expertise:
- Euthanasia and other end-of-life decisions
- Place of death
- Public health
- Palliative and end-of-life care
- Big data
- Family caregiving
- Health services research
- Quality Indicators and quality of healthcare assessment
Affiliations
- End-of-life Care Research Group (Research group)
Member
From1 Nov 2003 → Today - Family Medicine and Chronic Care (Department)
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From1 Oct 2020 → Today - Family Medicine and Chronic Care (Department)
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From8 Apr 2019 → 30 Sep 2020 - Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy (Faculty)
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From22 Jun 2017 → 7 Sep 2017 - Family Medicine and Chronic Care (Department)
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From1 Jan 2014 → 20 Oct 2022 - Family Medicine and Chronic Care (Department)
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From1 Jan 2014 → 30 Sep 2016 - Medical Sociology (Department)
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From1 Feb 2012 → 31 Dec 2013 - Medical Sociology (Department)
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From1 Nov 2003 → 31 Dec 2013 - Sociology (Department)
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From1 Sep 2002 → 31 Oct 2003
Projects
1 - 10 of 14
- Uncovering the causal mechanisms related to Death LiteracyFrom1 Oct 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO senior postdoctoral fellowship
- SRP-Onderzoekszwaartepunt: Addressing the challenges around serious illness, palliative care and the end of life: public health, health services and clinical innovationsFrom1 Nov 2022 → TodayFunding: BOF - projects
- EU NAVIGATE : Implementation and evaluation of a Navigation Intervention for People with Cancer in Old Age and their Family Caregivers: an international pragmatic randomized controlled trialFrom1 Sep 2022 → TodayFunding: HORIZON.2.1 - Health
- Using big data to strengthen the evidence about effects of prescribing and deprescribing of medications in older people with limited life- expectancyFrom1 Jan 2020 → 31 Dec 2023Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Research and Social Change towards Compassionate Communities (RESOCO)From1 Nov 2019 → TodayFunding: BOF - projects
- Bonus Social Valorisation - award VI en VII (2018-2019): L. Deliens & J. CohenFrom3 May 2019 → 2 May 2021Funding: University - Project driven research
- SBO project with a primary societal finality: CAPACITY: Flanders Project to Develop Capacity in Palliative Care Across SocietyFrom1 Jan 2019 → 31 Dec 2022Funding: FWO Strategic Basic Research (SBO)
- Towards theory-based behavioral interventions to improve timely initiation of palliative care for persons with cancer.From1 Oct 2018 → 30 Sep 2022Funding: FWO fellowships
- End-of-life decisions in fetuses older than 22 weeks, neonates and infants: a population based study in Flanders, BelgiumFrom1 Jan 2016 → 31 Dec 2019Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- A population-level evaluation of the quality and cost-effectiveness of end-of-life careFrom1 Jan 2014 → 31 Dec 2017Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
Publications
21 - 30 of 215
- Systematic translation and adaptation of the FOCUS program, a USA-based supportive intervention for persons with cancer and their family caregivers, for use in six European countries(2022)
Authors: Maaike van der Wel, Doris van der Smissen, Sigrid Dierickx, Joachim Cohen, Peter Hudson, Aline De Vleminck, Lydia Tutt, David Scott, Silvia Di Leo, Caroline Moeller Arnfeldt, et al.
Pages: 9763-9770 - Identification of the most important factors related to people with cancer starting a palliative care conversation(2022)
Authors: Anne-Lore Scherrens, Kim Beernaert, Luc Deliens, Lore Lapeire, Martine De Laat, Christine Biebuyck, K Geboes, Charles Van Praet, Ine Moors, Benedicte Deforche, et al.
Pages: 1843-1851 - Consultation of parents and healthcare professionals in end-of-life decision-making for neonates and infants(2022)
Authors: Laure Dombrecht, Filip Cools, Joachim Cohen, Luc Deliens, Linde Goossens, , Kim Beernaert, Kenneth Chambaere
Pages: 1-8 - Development of an intervention (PICASO) to optimise the palliative care capacity of social workers in Flanders(2022)
Authors: Brent Taels, Kirsten Hermans, Chantal Van Audenhove, Joachim Cohen, Koen Hermans, Anja Declercq
Pages: 1-10 - The interRAI CHESS scale is comparable to the palliative performance scale in predicting 90-day mortality in a palliative home care population(2022)
Authors: Nicole Williams, Kirsten Hermans, Joachim Cohen, Anja Declercq, Ahmed Jakda, James Downar, Dawn M Guthrie, John P Hirdes
Pages: 1-13 - Place of death of people with cancer in 12 Latin American countries(2022)
Authors: Tania Pastrana, Katja Seitz, Luc Deliens, Joachim Cohen
Pages: S36-S36 - Volunteers in palliative care: A healthcare system-wide cross-sectional survey.(2022)
Authors: Steven Vanderstichelen, J Cohen, Yanna Van Wesemael, Luc Deliens, Kenneth Chambaere
Pages: E83-E93 - Medical end-of-life decision-making in a small resource-poor Caribbean country(2022)
Authors: Nicholas P Jennings, Kenneth Chambaere, Cheryl C Macpherson, Karen L Cox, Luc Deliens, Joachim Cohen
Pages: 1660-1670 - Engagement of specialized palliative care services with the general public(2022)
Authors: Aline De Vleminck, Sally Paul, Maria Reinius, Libby Sallnow, Carol Tishelman, Joachim Cohen
Pages: 878-888 - End-of-life decisions in neonates and infants(2022)
Authors: Laure Dombrecht, Kim Beernaert, Kenneth Chambaere, Filip Cools, Linde Goossens, , Joachim Cohen, Luc Deliens
Pages: 340-341