Background Specialist palliative care teams are consulted during hospital admission for advice on complex palliative care. These consultations need to be timely to prevent symptom burden and maintain quality of life. Insight into specialist palliative care teams may help improve the outcomes of palliative …

Background Hospital admissions are common in the last phase of life. However, palliative care and advance care planning (ACP) are provided late or not at all during hospital admission. Aim To provide insight into the perceptions of in-hospital healthcare professionals concerning current and ideal practice …

Background: Team-based palliative care interventions have shown positive results for patients at the end of life in both hospital and community settings. However, evidence on the effectiveness of transmural, that is, spanning hospital and home, team-based palliative care collaborations is limited. Aim: …

Background To improve transmural palliative care for older adults acutely admitted to hospital, the PalliSupport intervention, comprising an educational programme and transmural palliative care pathway, was developed. This care pathway involves timely identification of palliative care needs, advance …

OBJECTIVES:  To improve transmural palliative care for acutely admitted older patients, the PalliSupport transmural care pathway was developed. Implementation of this care pathway was challenging. The aim of this study was to improve understanding why the implementation partly failed. DESIGN:  A qualitative …

Background : end-of-life care is not always in line with end-of-life preferences, so patients do not always die at their preferred place of death (PPD). This study aims to identify factors associated with patients' PPD and changes in PPD.  Methods : we prospectively collected data on PPD at four time …

This chapter diagnoses the situation of high-tech small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the Eindhoven Brainport region in the south of the Netherlands, based on desk research and additional background interviews. This region has an ecosystem with a very proliferated heritage of technology-based companies …

De consument uit zich steeds vaker op het internet over een dienst, product of merk en veel organisaties weten niet goed hoe ze hier mee om moeten gaan. Deze situatie heeft tot het begrip webcare geleid. Webcare is kort gezegd het managen van je (online) reputatie door als organisatie actief te zijn …

Door personen wordt het internet misbruikt om minderjarigen te benaderen en te verleiden met als doel om hen in de 'fysieke wereld' seksueel te misbruiken, grooming genoemd. Naar aanleiding van het Verdrag van Lanzarote is de strafbaarstelling van grooming op 1 januari 2010 toegevoegd aan het Wetboek …

Dit is een onderzoek naar de mogelijkheden van een gastvrijheidsconcept in het Medisch Centrum Alkmaar. De probleemstelling bij dit onderzoek luidt: 'Op welke wijze kan het Medisch Centrum Alkmaar meegaan in de ontwikkelingen in de zorg met betrekking tot de mogelijkheden van een gastvrijheidsconcept, …