Publications
Developing and validating a questionnaire for mortality follow-back studies on end-of-life care and decision-making in a resource-poor Caribbean country Ghent University Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Quality of primary palliative care for older people with mild and severe dementia: an international mortality follow-back study using quality indicators Vrije Universiteit Brussel Ghent University
Background: measuring the quality of primary palliative care for older people with dementia in different countries is important to identify areas where improvements can be made.
Objective: using quality indicators (QIs), we systematically investigated the overall quality of primary palliative care for older people with dementia in three different countries.
Design/setting: a mortality follow-back survey through nation- and ...
Involvement of a Case Manager in Palliative Care Reduces Hospitalisations at the End of Life in Cancer Patients; A Mortality Follow-Back Study in Primary Care Vrije Universiteit Brussel
BACKGROUND: Case managers have been introduced in primary palliative care in the Netherlands; these are nurses with expertise in palliative care who offer support to patients and informal carers in addition to the care provided by the general practitioner (GP) and home-care nurse.
OBJECTIVES: To compare cancer patients with and without additional support from a case manager on: 1) the patients' general characteristics, 2) ...