Full Name
Ellen Coeckelberghs
Job Title
PhD
Company
University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium
Speaker Bio
Ellen Coeckelberghs is a post-doctoral researcher at the Leuven Institute for Healthcare Policy at KU Leuven, and coordinator of the Belgian-Dutch clinical pathway network and the European Pathway Association.
She is involved in national and international research about care pathways. She co-authored the national care pathway for low back pain, that was commissioned by the Belgian Health Care Knowledge Center.
Internationally, she performed projects on care Pathways for Nutrition problems in gastro-intestinal cancer surgery patients and geriatric hip fractures.
In 2018, she started an improvement collaborative with 18 flemish hospitals to improve care for patients undergoing colorectal surgery (BIC4CRC).
Afterwards, other improvement collaboratives were initiated for different pathologies (geriatric hip fracture care, stroke, breast cancer and ventral mesh rectopexy) with each more than 25 participating hospitals.
Moreover she is involved in projects regarding patient centered care (“In search of Mangomoments”), second victims after adverse events, care process organization and optimalisation of quality of care.
She is involved in national and international research about care pathways. She co-authored the national care pathway for low back pain, that was commissioned by the Belgian Health Care Knowledge Center.
Internationally, she performed projects on care Pathways for Nutrition problems in gastro-intestinal cancer surgery patients and geriatric hip fractures.
In 2018, she started an improvement collaborative with 18 flemish hospitals to improve care for patients undergoing colorectal surgery (BIC4CRC).
Afterwards, other improvement collaboratives were initiated for different pathologies (geriatric hip fracture care, stroke, breast cancer and ventral mesh rectopexy) with each more than 25 participating hospitals.
Moreover she is involved in projects regarding patient centered care (“In search of Mangomoments”), second victims after adverse events, care process organization and optimalisation of quality of care.
