Projects
Advancing the implementation of quality improvement strategies to reduce maternal mortality using realist evaluation: the case of Maternal Death Reviews in Benin Institute of Tropical Medicine
“Surely we belong to God and to Him shall we return”. Attitudes, beliefs and practices regarding death and dying among middle-aged and elderly Moroccan Muslim women in Antwerp (Belgium) KU Leuven
InshaAllah. Attitudes, beliefs and practices regarding death and dying of elderly female Muslims of Moroccan and Turkish descent living in Antwerp, Belgium. KU Leuven
The role of iron-mediated cell death (ferroptosis) in arterial media calcification: preclinical evaluation of novel ferroptosis inhibitors to halt this lethal disorder. University of Antwerp
Death to the 'failed state', long live hybrid governance? Hybrid governance and international donors in the primary education sector of Somaliland. University of Antwerp
Redesigning end-of-life care for patients with congenital heart disease by scrutinizing trajectories toward death and evaluating curative and palliative care in the last year of life KU Leuven
Healthcare spending has never been higher and is expected to continue to rise in all parts of the world over the next few years. One solution to reducing healthcare costs is to reduce avoidable healthcare use, which is healthcare use that could have been avoided by proper prevention, precautions or timely referrals. Avoidable healthcare use is common, unfortunately. To gain a good understanding of this concept, a detailed review of the ...
The plentiful, the pious and the poor. Images of Flanders in German translations of Flemish literature during the First World War (1914-1918). University of Antwerp
A Phone Call with the Dead. Necrodialogues in Western Literature, Theater and Media. Ghent University
The necrodialogue is an anthropological need that finds expression in ritualistic and artistic representations. Inherent to this dialogue is the use of personal intermediaries and technical media to establish contact. We know that cultural historical and religious views on death have always influenced necrodialogues and vice versa. The fact that changes in media history reshape the necrodialogue has, however, received far less attention. In ...
Assessing quality of life in cancer patients diagnosed with poor prognoses: adapting existent measures to achieve better sensitivity in follow-up studies Ghent University
Quality of life (QOL) of the patient and his or her family is the core outcome variable
in palliative care. Although medical staff can adequately judge the progress of a
disease, it remains unclear how patients personally experience their terminal illness
and how it determines their QOL. It is found that there are some serious problems in
assessing quality of life adequately in end-of-life care. The main problem is that ...