Anouk
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PhD candidate and linguist Anouk van der Hout (Erasmus MC) researches values of patients and informal caregivers, as part of her project on shared decision making for locally advanced pancreatic cancer. Shared decision making means that healthcare professionals and patients work together to make treatment decisions based on the best available scientific evidence, while also taking into account a patient’s values and preferences. Treatment for locally advanced pancreatic cancer can highly impact a patient’s quality of life, while outcomes are uncertain. Therefore it is important that treatment choices align with a patient’s values. Given the uncertainty on outcomes and high impact of treatment, it is a challenge to practice shared decision making. With my research I therefore hope to contribute to improving shared decision making for this specific patient group.
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Anouk van der Hout is a PhD candidate at the department of Public Health of Erasmus MC, where her research focuses on shared decision making for locally advanced pancreatic cancer. In this PhD project her main focus is a qualitative, longitudinal interview study with patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer and their informal caregivers about their experiences with decision making and their values. This project is part of the PREOPANC-4 study, a nationwide clinical implementation study for the optimal multidisciplinary management and resection of locally advanced pancreatic cancer. For her PhD project Anouk works together with clinicians from Erasmus MC, Amsterdam UMC, Regional Academic Cancer Centre Utrecht, and scientists from Leiden University Medical Centre and TU Delft. She particularly enjoys interdisciplinary research and fostering dialogue that helps scientists from different fields broaden their perspectives.
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