Projects

Our research projects are coordinated within three main research programs, each managed by at least two post-doctoral research fellows and one program chair.

• Interdisciplinary Research Program (IRP): Research and Social Change towards Compassionate Communities (RESOCO)

• A perinatal palliative care program within standard perinatal healthcare: developing and pilot testing a complex intervention (a phase 0-2 study)

• Using big data to strengthen the evidence about effects of prescribing and deprescribing of medications in older people with limited life-expectancy

• DISTINCT (European Commission H2020)

• Improving patients’ level of engagement in advance care planning with their general practitioner: a cluster randomized controlled trial

• Development, implementation and evaluation of the Nursing home Care

• A quality label for volunteers in home-care (‘Thoughtful visitors’): development and pilot-testing of a volunteer training programme in assessment and communication of physical, psychological, social and existential palliative care needs

• Palliative care for people with dementia

• CAPACITY (FWO-SBO)

• Advance care planning (ACP) with people with dementia and their caregivers: development of an ACP communication in dementia skills training for physicians

• LEIF – Consultation of Life End Information Forum physicians for euthanasia and other end-of-life decisions

• A Cross-cultural international study of Medical Practitioners’ Understanding and Practice of Continuous Sedation for Distress at the End of Life

• DIAdIC (European Commission H2020)

• Towards theory-based behavioral interventions to improve timely initiation of palliative care for persons with cancer

• Attitudes and Experiences of Belgian Psychiatrists on Euthanasia Requests (pEAS)

• Control measures for palliative sedation

• CAREFuL - Implementing the Care Programme For the Last Days of Life in acute geriatric hospital wards in Flanders, Belgium

• Supportive and palliative day care centres in Flanders: added value for users and health economic impact

• Development and implementation of quality indicators for advance care planning, palliative care and end-of-life care in nursing homes in Flanders, Belgium

• Involvement of family carers’ in advance care planning

• pACP - Multi-center randomized controlled trial to test the effectiveness of family-centred advance care planning in adolescents with cancer and their parents

• Advance care planning in patients with a chronic life-limiting illness in general practice: a RCT on the effectiveness of ACP on the quality of communication and concordance between preferred and delivered end-of-life care

• Paediatric care at the end of life: a population-based analysis using quality indicators

• Euthanasia Requests from Psychiatric Patients in Flanders: Motives, Experiences, Management, and Outcomes

• An exploration of the nature and meaning of informal communities in cancer treatment

• Vital Coaching

• Development of a practice tool for the improvement of palliative sedation practices in nursing homes

• Developing and evaluating short-term palliative care for frail older people

• nELD - End-of-life decisions in stillbirths, neonates and infants: a population-based study in Flanders, Belgium

• CARPCS - Caribbean Palliative Care Study

• A population-level evaluation of the quality of end-of-life care

• PharmaNurse+

• IPaC - Early integration of palliative care in oncology

• INDUCT (EU Horizon 2020)

• Evaluation of a complex intervention to initiate advance care planning in general practice for the improvement of end-of-life care

• Care needs throughout the illness trajectory of people with cancer

• The end of life of older people with cancer in long term care facilities and at home: current state of affairs in Flanders

• Trends in euthanasia practice in Belgium

• Communication about the end of life in nursing homes: a cluster randomised controlled trail

• Implementing quality indicators into specialized palliative care services at home and in hospitals in Flanders, Belgium

• PACE (EU FP7)

• ACTION (EU FP7)

• Ethical aspects of research involving palliative and/or dying patients

• Palliative sedation: practice, perspectives and guidelines

• DIADISS - Distress and Quality of Life in suspected lung cancer patients

• Conversations of terminal status

• IPaC - Early Integration of Palliative Care

• EURO SENTIMELC

• IPoD - International Place of Death Study

• EPCCS - European Palliative Care Cancer Symptom study

• Towards theory-based behavioral interventions to improve timely initiation of palliative care for persons with cancer

• INTEGRATE (IWT-SBO)

• Public views on end-of-life care: Behavior change theories applied in end-of-life care contexts

• CAREFul - Evaluation of the effectiveness of the Care Programma for the Last Days of Life to improve care in the last days of life: a cluster randomised trial

• FLIECE (IWT-SBO)

• EURO-IMPACT (EU FP7)

• Q-Pac - Development of Quality Indicators for Palliative Care

• UNBIASED - International Sedation Study

• Collaboration between general practitioners and the palliative home care team of Brussel-Halle-Vilvoorde

• Dying Well with Dementia

• MELC (IWT-SBO)

• Interdisciplinary Research Program (IRP): Research and Social Change towards Compassionate Communities (RESOCO)

• A perinatal palliative care program within standard perinatal healthcare: developing and pilot testing a complex intervention (a phase 0-2 study)

• Using big data to strengthen the evidence about effects of prescribing and deprescribing of medications in older people with limited life-expectancy

• DISTINCT (European Commission H2020)

• Improving patients’ level of engagement in advance care planning with their general practitioner: a cluster randomized controlled trial

• Development, implementation and evaluation of the Nursing home Care

• A quality label for volunteers in home-care (‘Thoughtful visitors’): development and pilot-testing of a volunteer training programme in assessment and communication of physical, psychological, social and existential palliative care needs

• Palliative care for people with dementia

• CAPACITY (FWO-SBO)

• Advance care planning (ACP) with people with dementia and their caregivers: development of an ACP communication in dementia skills training for physicians

• LEIF – Consultation of Life End Information Forum physicians for euthanasia and other end-of-life decisions

• A Cross-cultural international study of Medical Practitioners’ Understanding and Practice of Continuous Sedation for Distress at the End of Life

• DIAdIC (European Commission H2020)

• Towards theory-based behavioral interventions to improve timely initiation of palliative care for persons with cancer

• Attitudes and Experiences of Belgian Psychiatrists on Euthanasia Requests (pEAS)

• Control measures for palliative sedation

• CAREFuL - Implementing the Care Programme For the Last Days of Life in acute geriatric hospital wards in Flanders, Belgium

• Supportive and palliative day care centres in Flanders: added value for users and health economic impact

• Development and implementation of quality indicators for advance care planning, palliative care and end-of-life care in nursing homes in Flanders, Belgium

• Involvement of family carers’ in advance care planning

• pACP - Multi-center randomized controlled trial to test the effectiveness of family-centred advance care planning in adolescents with cancer and their parents

• Advance care planning in patients with a chronic life-limiting illness in general practice: a RCT on the effectiveness of ACP on the quality of communication and concordance between preferred and delivered end-of-life care

• Paediatric care at the end of life: a population-based analysis using quality indicators

• Euthanasia Requests from Psychiatric Patients in Flanders: Motives, Experiences, Management, and Outcomes

• An exploration of the nature and meaning of informal communities in cancer treatment

• PharmaNurse+

• Vital Coaching

• IPaC - Early integration of palliative care in oncology

• Development of a practice tool for the improvement of palliative sedation practices in nursing homes

• INDUCT (EU Horizon 2020)

• Developing and evaluating short-term palliative care for frail older people

• nELD - End-of-life decisions in stillbirths, neonates and infants: a population-based study in Flanders, Belgium

• CARPCS - Caribbean Palliative Care Study

• Evaluation of a complex intervention to initiate advance care planning in general practice for the improvement of end-of-life care

• Care needs throughout the illness trajectory of people with cancer

• The end of life of older people with cancer in long term care facilities and at home: current state of affairs in Flanders

• Trends in euthanasia practice in Belgium

• Communication about the end of life in nursing homes: a cluster randomised controlled trail

• Implementing quality indicators into specialized palliative care services at home and in hospitals in Flanders, Belgium

• A population-level evaluation of the quality of end-of-life care

• PACE (EU FP7)

• ACTION (EU FP7)

• Ethical aspects of research involving palliative and/or dying patients

• Palliative sedation: practice, perspectives and guidelines

• DIADISS - Distress and Quality of Life in suspected lung cancer patients

• Conversations of terminal status

• IPaC - Early Integration of Palliative Care

• EURO SENTIMELC

• IPoD - International Place of Death Study

• EPCCS - European Palliative Care Cancer Symptom study

• Towards theory-based behavioral interventions to improve timely initiation of palliative care for persons with cancer

• INTEGRATE (IWT-SBO)

• Public views on end-of-life care: Behavior change theories applied in end-of-life care contexts

• CAREFul - Evaluation of the effectiveness of the Care Programma for the Last Days of Life to improve care in the last days of life: a cluster randomised trial

• FLIECE (IWT-SBO)

• EURO-IMPACT (EU FP7)

• Q-Pac - Development of Quality Indicators for Palliative Care

• UNBIASED - International Sedation Study

• Collaboration between general practitioners and the palliative home care team of Brussel-Halle-Vilvoorde

• Dying Well with Dementia

• MELC (IWT-SBO)