Publications by authors named "K Tournoy"
Introduction: Characterisation of the recreational diving community could help to identify scuba divers at risk for accidents.
Methods: We performed a cross-sectional evaluation in a federation for recreational scuba divers in Belgium (Duiken.Vlaanderen).
Background: Value-based healthcare (VBHC) is a conceptual framework to improve the value of healthcare by health, care-process and economic outcomes. Benchmarking should provide useful information to identify best practices and therefore a good instrument to improve quality across healthcare organizations. This paper aims to provide a proof-of-concept of the feasibility of an international VBHC benchmarking in breast cancer, with the ultimate aim of being used to share best practices with a data-driven approach among healthcare organizations from different health systems.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: For patients receiving therapy with curative or palliative intent for a thoracic malignancy, prediction of quality of life (QOL), once therapy starts, remains challenging. The role of health assessments by the patient instead of the doctor herein remains ill-defined.
Aims: To assess the evolution of QOL in patients with thoracic malignancies treated with curative and palliative intent, respectively.
Background: Lung cancer can be detected by measuring the patient's plasma metabolomic profile using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. This NMR-based plasma metabolomic profile is patient-specific and represents a snapshot of the patient's metabolite concentrations. The onset of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) causes a change in the metabolite profile.
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