Publications by authors named "Bart Sijnave"
Context: Although the acute hospital setting is not considered to be an ideal place of death, many people are admitted to hospital at the end of life.
Objectives: The present study aims to examine the reasons for hospital admissions that result in an expected death and the factors that play a role in the decision to admit to hospital.
Methods: This was a survey among family physicians (FPs) about those of their patients who had died nonsuddenly in an acute university hospital setting in Belgium between January and August 2014.
Background: Although the acute hospital setting is not considered to be an ideal place of death, many people are admitted to hospital at the end of life.
Aim: To examine what proportion of terminal hospital admissions among their patients family physicians consider to have been avoidable and/or inappropriate; which patient, family physician and admission factors are associated with the perceived inappropriateness or avoidability of terminal hospital admissions; and which interventions could have prevented them, from the perspective of family physicians.
Design: Survey among family physicians, linked to medical record data.
Purpose: Hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia are frequently encountered in critically ill patients and associated with adverse outcomes. We configured a smart glycemia alert (S-GLY alert) with our Intensive Care Information System to decrease the number of hyperglycemic values and increase the proportion of time within the glucose interval of 80 to 150 mg/dL.
Materials And Methods: Prospective intervention study in surgical intensive care unit in a tertiary care hospital.
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to gain a better insight into the reasons why hospital physicians accept and use a Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS). Two research questions are put forward, pertaining to (1) factors that contribute to physicians' acceptance of PACS, and (2) whether these factors change as physicians gain experience in using PACS.
Methods: Questionnaires were administered at three moments in time during the PACS implementation process in a private hospital: just before its introduction (T1), four months later (T2), and about fifteen months after the introduction of PACS (T3).