Prevention as a key measure to improve healthcare quality and patient safety

Author:

Vandijck Dominique M1,Blot Stijn I2,Labeau Sonia O3,Vogelaers Dirk P4

Affiliation:

1. Dominique M Vandijck is Professor of health economics and patient safety at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, the Faculty of Pharmacy at Ghent University (Belgium), and at the Faculty of Business Economics of Hasselt University (Belgium). He is also affiliated with the Department of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Ghent University Hospital (Belgium). His main research interests include quality and safety topics from a health economic perspective, primarily within the field of...

2. Stijn I Blot is Research Professor in infectious diseases at the Department of Internal Medicine, Ghent University. He is recognized for his work in clinical epidemiology of severe infections with several national and international awards, among which include the 2005 and 2007 Young Investigator Awards from the American Society for Microbiology and the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, respectively. He has also achieved the 2008 European Critical Care Research Network...

3. Sonia O Labeau is a Lecturer at University College Ghent, Belgium. Her primary research interests include the prevention of healthcare-associated infections. She is recognized for her work in infection prevention, having achieved the 2008 European Critical Care Research Network Nursing Science Award from the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine.

4. Dirk P Vogelaers is Professor of internal medicine at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of Ghent University. Currently, he is Head of the Department of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Psychosomatics of Ghent University Hospital. He is widely recognized for his extraordinary expertise in infectious diseases. His research topics include all issues related to infectious diseases and internal medicine.

Publisher

Future Medicine Ltd

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