Projects
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 ...
Patient-centred care for persons with multimorbidity: construction and evaluation of a patient-centred disease management program in primary care. KU Leuven
Belgian health care is currently organised around single diseases, which presents unique challenges for patients suffering from multiple physical or mental long-term conditions (multimorbidity) and their care givers. Multimorbidity poses a threat to health care because it is associated with poor outcomes such as premature death, frequent and longer hospitalisation, decreased quality of life and psychological stress. The increasing prevalence ...
Mind the care gap: a population-based international study on the impact of care gaps on mortality, morbidity, and healthcare use in patients with congenital heart disease. KU Leuven
Organisation of care for patients with chronic disease in Belgium. SWOT analysis of chronic care in Belgium - Stakeholders views. University of Antwerp
QUALITY MEASURES IN TRANSITIONAL CARE FOR ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS WITH CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE KU Leuven
Due to the improvements in treatment concepts, today more than 90% of the children born with a congenital heart defect (CHD) can reach adulthood. Although often operated in childhood, these patients are not cured, but carry the risk for sequelae as well as residua on the long-term. Therefore, most patients born with CHD need regular cardiology follow-up. During childhood, these patients and their families are best treated and followed-up at ...
Health promotion and disease prevention in primary care training: a Belgian framework from European guidelines (PROPELLER) University of Antwerp
Strengthening the role of local health systems to improve chronic disease care for urban poor in India Institute of Tropical Medicine
Developing a strategy to determine the most appropriate setting of care for patients with Congenital Heart Disease based on Belgian and Swedish Clinical Outcomes and Health Expenditures KU Leuven
Congenital heart disease (CHD) occurs in about 9 per 1,000 newborns. It comprises a wide spectrum of simple, moderate, and complex severity lesions. To date, about 95% of children born with CHD can reach adulthood. Irrespective of the treatment received in childhood, most of these patients require life-long follow-up. Since CHD comprises a spectrum of heart lesions, patients may be cared for at three levels of care: (i) care exclusively in a ...
Toward a sustainable and affordable healthcare: Exploring the potential of subsidiarity in the care for adults with congenital heart disease KU Leuven
Congenital heart disease (CHD) occurs in 9.3 per 1,000 newborns. It comprises a wide spectrum of simple, moderate, and complex severity lesions. To date, more than 90% of children born with CHD can reach adulthood. Irrespective of the treatment received in childhood, these patients cannot be considered to be cured when reaching adulthood, and therefore need life-long care. Since CHD comprises a wide spectrum of heart lesions, patients may be ...