Coolbrandt, Annemarie http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3262-5457
Wildiers, Hans
Aertgeerts, Bert
Dierckx de Casterlé, Bernadette
van Achterberg, Theo
Milisen, Koen
Funding for this research was provided by:
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Article History
Received: 28 July 2016
Accepted: 18 June 2018
First Online: 27 June 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Patients, family caregivers and professionals were actively involved during this practice improvement process. Patient engagement, i.e. involvement of patients, their families or representatives, in working actively with health professionals to improve health and healthcare services is becoming more and more accepted at various levels across the healthcare system (direct care, organizational design / governance, and policy making). Since this participation did not imply the collection and reporting of study data, we did not apply the intervention development process to the Institutional Review Board. However, the principles of confidentiality, anonymity, non-binding and well-informed participation were carefully accomplished.Informed consent did apply for the qualitative study quasi-experimental that were part of steps 1 and 6. These studies took part with the approval Institutional Review Board and are reported elsewhere.
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