Marijke C Kars
Biographic Data
| ID | 7606717 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marijke C Kars |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marijke C |
| FAMILY NAME | Kars |
| SIGNATURE | KARS M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University Medical Center Utrecht |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5680-4559 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Experiences with an Advance Care Planning Intervention for Children with Life-Limiting Conditions
Background: Advance care planning is a strategy to define goals and preferences for future care and treatment aligned to patient values. The IMplementing Pediatric Advance Care Planning Toolkit (IMPACT) provides a holistic, family-oriented approach to involve families of children with life-limiting conditions and their clinicians in ACP, starting early in disease trajectories. This study explores how children with life-limiting conditions, and th…
The Practical Application of the Individual Care Plan for Pediatric Palliative Care
Parents and healthcare professionals use the ICP as intended. However, uncertainties regarding timing, roles and responsibilities prevent optimal use of the ICP. Agreements on timing and responsibilities are needed for further ICP implementation in daily pediatric palliative care practice
Patient and family caregiver perspectives of Advance Care Planning
Advance Care Planning (ACP) is widely regarded as a component of good end-of-life care. However, findings from a qualitative international study of patient and family caregiver attitudes and preferences regarding ACP highlight participants’ ambivalence towards confronting the future and the factors underlying their motivation to accept or defer anticipatory planning. They show how ACP impacts on, and can be determined by, relationships between pa…
Why Medical Residents Do (and Don’t) Speak Up About Organizational Barriers and Opportunities to Improve the Quality of Care
PURPOSE: Medical residents are valuable sources of information about the quality of frontline service delivery, but if they do not speak up, their ideas, opinions, and suggestions for improving their work practices cannot be considered. However, speaking up can be difficult for residents. Therefore, the authors have explored both what helps residents speak up about organizational barriers and opportunities to improve the quality of their work and…
Perspectives of patients with type 1 or insulin-treated type 2 diabetes on self-monitoring of blood glucose
From the patients' perspective, professionals positively present SMBG as a 'friend' in order to achieve strict glycemic control. Whereas patients can also perceive SMBG as a 'foe'. They primarily seek a personal balance between achieving glycemic control and quality of life, leading them to deliberately make other choices regarding SMBG performance than was recommended. Gaining insight and discussing all factors affecting SMBG will help professio…
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Perspectives of patients with type 1 or insulin-treated type 2 diabetes on self-monitoring of blood glucose
From the patients' perspective, professionals positively present SMBG as a 'friend' in order to achieve strict glycemic control. Whereas patients can also perceive SMBG as a 'foe'. They primarily seek a personal balance between achieving glycemic control and quality of life, leading them to deliberately make other choices regarding SMBG performance than was recommended. Gaining insight and discussing all factors affecting SMBG will help professio…
Why Medical Residents Do (and Don’t) Speak Up About Organizational Barriers and Opportunities to Improve the Quality of Care
PURPOSE: Medical residents are valuable sources of information about the quality of frontline service delivery, but if they do not speak up, their ideas, opinions, and suggestions for improving their work practices cannot be considered. However, speaking up can be difficult for residents. Therefore, the authors have explored both what helps residents speak up about organizational barriers and opportunities to improve the quality of their work and…
The Practical Application of the Individual Care Plan for Pediatric Palliative Care
Parents and healthcare professionals use the ICP as intended. However, uncertainties regarding timing, roles and responsibilities prevent optimal use of the ICP. Agreements on timing and responsibilities are needed for further ICP implementation in daily pediatric palliative care practice
Patient and family caregiver perspectives of Advance Care Planning
Advance Care Planning (ACP) is widely regarded as a component of good end-of-life care. However, findings from a qualitative international study of patient and family caregiver attitudes and preferences regarding ACP highlight participants’ ambivalence towards confronting the future and the factors underlying their motivation to accept or defer anticipatory planning. They show how ACP impacts on, and can be determined by, relationships between pa…
Experiences with an Advance Care Planning Intervention for Children with Life-Limiting Conditions
Background: Advance care planning is a strategy to define goals and preferences for future care and treatment aligned to patient values. The IMplementing Pediatric Advance Care Planning Toolkit (IMPACT) provides a holistic, family-oriented approach to involve families of children with life-limiting conditions and their clinicians in ACP, starting early in disease trajectories. This study explores how children with life-limiting conditions, and th…
Medicine (4 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Qualitative research (4 works) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (3 works) · Advance care planning (2 works) · Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life (2 works) · Palliative care (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Action (physics (1 work)