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Goals

  • To take a multidimensional approach to realize a meaningful personalized health care diagnosis and intervention.
  • To explore the underlying mechanisms driving the complexity of vulnerability.
  • To optimize preclinical perioperative and postoperative care, identifying and mitigating risk factors before, during and after surgery to improve outcomes and reduce complications.
  • To improve the identification, prevention and treatment of multidimensional symptoms in advanced disease stages and palliative care.
  • To explore in depth the ethical and existential dilemmas of health care problems of vulnerable patients, to identify personalized patients’ wishes, values and needs.
  • To explore and research educational programs for Health Care improvement strategies for vulnerable patients focused on evidence-based medicine and innovative prospective trials methodologies.
  • To develop, implement and evaluate evidence-based educational programs for health care professionals and patients, focusing on vulnerable patients including skills and living lab situations.
  • To develop a clinical living lab real world organization to integrate interdisciplinary care programs, bringing together various research programs and clinical pathways.


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Research Research programs Quality of life of vulnerable patients

Our mission

We aim to augment the quality of life of vulnerable patients across all age groups and conditions, for all those in primary care, ambulatory and clinical situations.

Goals

See some of the most important goals for this research program.

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Research groups contributing to this research program

Addiction psychiatry

Arnt Schellekens's research group aims to reduce the tremendous burden of addictive disorders through translational research, linking basic science with clinical practice. The group focuses on disentangling clinical heterogeneity, in order to develop personalized addiction treatment strategies.

Benign gynecology

Kirsten Kluivers's research group focuses on complex benign conditions, in particular on pelvic floor problems, endometriosis, fertility (fertility preservation and male infertility) and congenital gynecological problems.

Genetic diversity

Hieab Adams's research group studies how this complex puzzle of genetic and non-genetic factors is linked to health.

Spokesperson(s) for this research program

Spokesperson

prof. dr. Kris Vissers

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Spokesperson

prof. dr. Yvonne Schoon

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