Projects
Gerodent PLUS: primary oral care for home-dwelling elderly Ghent University
The aim of Gerodent PLUS is to promote good oral health and to create the currently absent continuity in the provision of oral care for the rapidly growing group of vulnerable elderly living at home at the level of primary care regions.This goal is pursued through (1) improved interprofessional collaboration between caregivers and (2) improving access to care for frail and care-dependent elderly people who stay at home or in a form of ...
Automated audit and feedback as a tool to measure and improve the quality of primary care KU Leuven
Summary
This thesis investigated automated audit and feedback towards patients and professionals as a tool to measure and improve the quality of primary care for diabetes type 2 and chronic kidney disease.
Introduction
Although audit and feedback is a well-studied intervention to assess and improve the quality of healthcare, there is no gold standard available for its design and implementation. Involving patients in an ...
The Primary Care Academy - A research training network. University of Antwerp
Quality and costs of primary care in Europe Ghent University
The QUALICOPC study aims to comprehensively evaluate primary care systems in Europe against criteria of quality, equity and costs. The study will provide an answer to the question what strong primary care systems entail and which effects strong primary care systems have on the performance of overall health care systems. The study will collect data in 32 countries in Europe by means of two surveys: one among general practitioners and another ...
SBO project with a primary societal finality: CAPACITY: Flanders Project to Develop Capacity in Palliative Care Across Society Vrije Universiteit Brussel
2) To develop and evaluate innovative interventions for broad capacity-development around palliative care
Innovations in diagnosing patients with acute abdominal pain in primary care. KU Leuven
Abdominal pain is one of the most common complaints of patients in primary care, accounting for 10% of all presentations in general practice. Abdominal pain can be caused by a variety of conditions, ranging from acutely life-threatening to benign and self-limiting, most frequently acute gastro-enteritis, appendicitis, choledocholithiasis, acute pancreatitis and neoplasms. Overall mortality rates are approximately 3% in general practice. ...
Valorization of PRICOV-19 Study: Translating scientific findings into policy recommendations for preparedness and response to infectious disease outbreaks in European primary care practices Ghent University
During the COVID-19 pandemic, a consortium of more than 45 European research institutions, led by UGent, embarked on the PRICOV-19 study. This study aimed to investigate how primary care practices adapted their operations to deliver safe and high-quality care under challenging circumstances, particularly to vulnerable populations. PRICOV-19 collected data from over 8,000 primary care practices across 37 European countries and Israel, without ...