Projects
Value-based healthcare of state-of-the-art care pathways for adult spinal deformity in University Hospitals Leuven Vlerick Business School
Effectiveness of facility-based audits to improve the responsiveness of West African district hospitals to obstetric emergencies : a three-country cluster randomised controlled trial Institute of Tropical Medicine
Elaborate the trial intervention protocol for background and innovative strategy (control and innovation arm)
Elaborate the training curricula for background intervention that will be reinforced in control and innovation hospitals: guidelines on ...
In search of a solid legal framework for qualitative healthcare services in hospitals KU Leuven
Many countries face challenges regarding the quality of healthcare services in hospitals. International organizations such as the WHO advocate various quality improvement strategies, including the establishment of an enabling legal framework. Despite the absence of a harmonised framework of minimal quality requirements by the EU, states have developed their own national legal frameworks. Some states have adopted lenient frameworks, ...
Birthing in between cultural life-worlds: culture-sensitive guidance of young mothers with differing cultural roots in a hospital’s maternity care unit. KU Leuven
The design of sustainable collaborations between hospitals Ghent University
When setting up a collaborative venture, hospitals typically fail to significantly improve their overall performance due to lack of integration of clinical services and resource management. In this study, we develop a novel collaborative mechanism via empirical and computational research to facilitate negotiation between two hospital entities in search for a game-theoretic Nash equilibrium. This mechanism design enables a sustainable ...
Towards a better understanding of how Pakistani hospitals implement the COVID-19 Disease Prevention and Control Policy Ghent University
Unravelling Team Compositions for Nursing Teams in Acute Care Hospitals to Reinforce Patient and Team Outcomes: A Dynamic Perspective. University of Antwerp
The ADNEX risk model for ovarian cancer diagnosis: improving performance across different hospitals and examiners KU Leuven
The ADNEX model, introduced in 2014, has demonstrated good diagnostic ability for five ovarian tumor types: benign, borderline, stage I invasive, stage II-IV invasive, and secondary metastasis. However, ADNEX should be further improved based on previous findings. First, despite excellent overall performance, we should understand and reduce observed differences between centers. Second, ADNEX was developed on patients selected for surgery, and ...