Bellis van den Berg
Vilans, Centre of excellence for care and support
Bellis van den Berg
Centre of Expertise for Care and support, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Dr Bellis van den Berg studied psychology and holds a PhD in epidemiology. She has more than twenty years of experience in health services research. Her work focuses on monitoring and impact of interventions and improvement programmes, learning health systems and data-driven health care. She engages in research and implementation of continuous improvement and innovations in health care organisations, focusing on collaborating with practice and translating conceptual knowledge to practice.
FURTHER INFORMATION
| Countries | Netherlands; |
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| Topics | AI and LTC; Care Homes; Care outcomes; Evaluation of LTC systems and services; Implementation; Information and data systems in LTC; Outcome measurement in LTC; Social Innovation in LTC; |
| Methods | Assessment tool development; Creative research methods; Data science and LTC research; Implementation science; Knowledge-exchange; Measure validation; Mixed methods; Narrative evaluation methods; Practice-based approaches; Qualitative studies; Quantitative data analysis; Questionnaire; Surveys; Theory and frameworks; Theory of Change; |
| Role | Research; |
| Interest Groups | Data Science; Quality improvement in Long-Term Care; |
| Website | https://www.linkedin.com/in/bellis-van-den-berg-a902066/ |
| ORC.ID | 0009-0001-5166-7986 |
| Research interests | My main research interests are: quality of care, health care improvement, data-driven health care, learning health systems, development of organizational conditions for innovation, implemenation and positive change. |
| Key publications | van den Berg, B. Reijmer Y., Kee, K., Nies, H., Zondervan, M. Beersma, B (accepted). Feeling free to speak up: the relationship between perceived preconditions for voice and retention of care professionals in Dutch nursing homes. Accepted for publication in Journal of health management and organization. Vermunt, P., Reijmer, Y., Biessum, C., de Groot, V., van den Berg, B., Nies, H (2023). Improving the quality of care in nursing home organizations with urgent quality issues: Design and effectiveness of a Dutch government-funded support programme. BMC Health Services Research; 18;23(1):507. doi: 10.1186/s12913-023-09538-w. Triemstra, M., Menting, J., van den Berg, B. (2021) Quality evaluation questionnaires – nursing homes (QEQ-NH); validation of questionnaires for measuring quality of care in nursing homes from various perspectives. BMC Health Services Research; 21:961 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06823-4. |