Objectives : Exploring terminal patients' perceptions of GPs' role in delivering continuous
end-of-life care and identifying barriers to this. Design : Qualitative interview study with patients (…

Objectives Locked-in syndrome (LIS) consists of anarthria and quadriplegia while
consciousness is preserved. Classically, vertical eye movements or blinking allow coded …

In January 1999, 500 tons of feed contaminated with approximately 50 kg of polychlorinated
biphenyls (PCBs) and 1 g of dioxins were distributed to animal farms in Belgium, and to a …

… Jan L Bernheim, medical oncologist 1… Debates about euthanasia often polarise opinion,
but Jan Bernheim and colleagues describe how in Belgium the two camps grew up side by …

OBJECTIVE: To describe the attitudes towards truth-telling of both terminal patients and
professional caregivers, and to determine their perceived barriers to full information exchange. …

This article analyses domestic and foreign reactions to a 2008 report in the British Medical
Journal on the complementary and, as argued, synergistic relationship between palliative …

The Anamnestic Comparative Self-Assessment is a method by which cancer patients
numerically express their overall subjective level of the quality of life. A personal scale of well-…

Background: The conventional question (CQ) on subjective well-being (SWB) is eg “How is
life?”, with ratings between eg ‘Best’ and ‘Worst possible’. Disadvantages may be …

Background In 2002, physician-assisted dying was legally regulated in the Netherlands and
Belgium, followed in 2009 by Luxembourg. An internationally frequently expressed concern …

The Belgian model of ‘integral’ end-of-life care consists of universal access to palliative care
(PC) and legally regulated euthanasia. As a first worldwide, the Flemish PC organisation …