Projects
The education and communication pillars of integrated care for atrial fibrillation Hasselt University
The education and communication pillars of integrated care for atrial fibrillation. KU Leuven
The prevalence of atrial fibrillation (VKF) is high and will increase even further. VKF is a major burden for the current healthcare system. Our research group has already conducted various observational studies to map the current shortcomings in the care of VKF patients. In addition, we have also tested several new interventions to optimize the VKF policy. Despite sufficient evidence that an interdisciplinary, nursing-coordinated approach is ...
Personalised management with the use of new mobile and integrated care tools targeting three outcome determinants in patients with atrial fibrillation. University of Antwerp
Towards timely integration of specialist palliative home care services for older people with dementia with complex care needs and their family carers: a mixed-method theory-informed study Vrije Universiteit Brussel
unmet complex care needs, and are often cared for by their family.
These people could benefit from receiving specialist palliative home
care services. Yet, their access to these services remains poor and
late, and this problem remains understudied. Hence, our overarching
aim is to provide the first comprehensive understanding of how
...
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 ...
APPLIEDx: Integrated point-of-care platform for infectious diseases diagnosis KU Leuven
In vitro diagnostic (IVD) technologies have undoubtfully revolutionized healthcare over the past decades. However, with dominance of laboratory-confined technologies, the IVD market critically lags behind a healthcare paradigm shift towards decentralized diagnostic approaches (so called, point-of-care, POC). Lab-on-chip (LOC) technologies have long promised to address this need and bring lab-quality assays to the POC, but largely failed ...
Integrated longitudinal research on the etiology of CAM deformity and its association with femoroacetabular impingement. KU Leuven
Femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) is a common clinical problem
in which abnormal contact occurs between the thighbone and the hip
socket. In intensive, mostly still young, male athletes, this problem
seems to be related to a bony deformity on the head of this
thighbone, a so-called CAM. FAI itself gives rise to pain symptoms,
but in time can even lead to premature osteoarthritis. However, the
...Shared reproductive decisions: an integrated research approach Ghent University
In general, pregnancies are unique and wonderful experiences. However, for some women,
getting pregnant is a medical and psychological struggle. For others, being pregnant is not a happy experience at all. When couples do not get pregnant after one year of regular sexual intercourse, they are identified as infertile. They can decide to go to a fertility clinic to get pregnant with assisted reproductive technologies. When women are ...
Design of an integrated balanced receiver for continuous variable quantum key distribution systems Ghent University
Secure communication provided by cryptography is of vital importance in many activities of the information society. The security of traditional public-key cryptosystems is based on computational complexity and can be broken by powerful computers. Fortunately, with the advent of Quantum cryptography unconditionally secure encryption can be guaranteed by the laws of (quantum) physics. Quantum cryptography allows for the parties to securely ...