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Guy Widdershoven is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research spans several fields, primarily in medicine, health professions, and psychology. Widdershoven's work integrates subfields including public health, environmental and occupational health, clinical psychology, general health professions, health informatics, and philosophy.

The research topics they have extensively addressed cover a range of issues related to healthcare and ethics. Key areas of focus include palliative care and end-of-life issues, ethics in medical practice, patient dignity and privacy, healthcare decision-making and restraints, ethics in clinical research, artificial intelligence in healthcare and education, and grief, bereavement, and mental health.

Widdershoven has contributed to multiple publications, with selected notable papers including:

  • Fostering a just culture in healthcare organizations: experiences in practice (2022), BMC Health Services Research
  • Irremediable Psychiatric Suffering in the Context of Physician-assisted Death: A Scoping Review of Arguments: La souffrance psychiatrique irrémédiable dans le contexte du suicide assisté: Une revue étendue des arguments (2020), The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
  • The Active Recovery Triad Model: A New Approach in Dutch Long-Term Mental Health Care (2020), Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • CURA: A clinical ethics support instrument for caregivers in palliative care (2022), Nursing Ethics
  • Establishing irremediable psychiatric suffering in the context of medical assistance in dying in the Netherlands: a qualitative study (2022), Canadian Medical Association Journal

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Widdershoven include Natalie Evans, Laura Hartman, Sisco van Veen, H. Roeline W. Pasman, and Ana Marušić. These collaborations have contributed to a substantial body of joint work.

Widdershoven's research outputs are published in various venues. The most frequent among these include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • The American Journal of Bioethics
  • BMC Health Services Research
  • The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • What does quality of life mean to older adults? A thematic synthesis.

    Karen M. van Leeuwen;Miriam S. van Loon;Fenna A. van Nes;Judith E. Bosmans

  • Patients as Partners in Responsive Research: Methodological Notions for Collaborations in Mixed Research Teams

    Tineke A. Abma;Christi J. Nierse;Guy A. M. Widdershoven

  • Vulnerability of family caregivers in terminal palliative care at home; balancing between burden and capacity.

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  • Clinical effectiveness of online computerised cognitive-behavioural therapy without support for depression in primary care: randomised trial.

    L.E. de Graaf;S.A.H. Gerhards;A.R. Arntz;H. Riper

  • Congruence between patients' preferred and perceived participation in medical decision-making: a review of the literature

    Linda Brom;Wendy Hopmans;H Roeline W Pasman;Danielle R M Timmermans

  • Empirical ethics as dialogical practice.

    Guy Widdershoven;Tineke Abma;Bert Molewijk

  • Economic evaluation of online computerised cognitive-behavioural therapy without support for depression in primary care: randomised trial.

    S.A.H. Gerhards;L.E. de Graaf;L.E. Jacobs;J.L. Severens

  • What does quality of life mean to older frail and non-frail community-dwelling adults in the Netherlands?

    M. T. E. Puts;N. Shekary;G. Widdershoven;J. Heldens

  • Improving adherence and effectiveness of computerised cognitive behavioural therapy without support for depression: a qualitative study on patient experiences.

    S.A.H. Gerhards;T.A. Abma;A. Arntz;L.E. de Graaf;L.E. de Graaf

  • Good Care in Ongoing Dialogue. Improving the Quality of Care Through Moral Deliberation and Responsive Evaluation

    Tineke A. Abma;Tineke A. Abma;Bert Molewijk;Bert Molewijk;Guy A. M. Widdershoven;Guy A. M. Widdershoven

  • What is a good death? Terminally ill patients dealing with normative expectations around death and dying.

    Minke Goldsteen;Rob Houtepen;Ireen M. Proot;Huda Huijer Abu-Saad

  • Patients' preferences for participation in treatment decision-making at the end of life: qualitative interviews with advanced cancer patients.

    Linda Brom;H. Roeline W. Pasman;Guy A. M. Widdershoven;Maurice J. D. L. van der Vorst

  • Implementing moral case deliberation in a psychiatric hospital: process and outcome

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  • Bringing gender sensitivity into healthcare practice: a systematic review.

    Halime Celik;Toine A.L.M. Lagro-Janssen;Guy G.A.M. Widdershoven;Tineke A. Abma

  • Challenges in shared decision making in advanced cancer care: a qualitative longitudinal observational and interview study.

    Linda Brom;Janine C. De Snoo-Trimp;Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen;Guy A. M. Widdershoven

  • Quality of life in palliative care cancer patients : a literature review

    Hubert R. Jocham;Theo Dassen;Guy Widdershoven;Ruud Halfens

  • Aims and harvest of moral case deliberation

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  • The needs of terminally ill patients at home: directing one's life, health and things related to beloved others

    Ireen M. Proot;Huda Huijer Abu-Saad;Ruud H.J. ter Meulen;Minke Goldsteen

  • Learning by Doing. Training Health Care Professionals to Become Facilitator of Moral Case Deliberation

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  • The Role of Emotions in Moral Case Deliberation: Theory, Practice, and Methodology

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  • Good care in group home living for people with dementia. Experiences of residents, family and nursing staff

    Ezra van Zadelhoff;Hilde Verbeek;Guy Widdershoven;Erik van Rossum

  • Integrated empirical ethics: loss of normativity?

    Lieke van der Scheer;Guy Widdershoven

  • Methodological issues in monitoring the use of coercive measures

    W.A. Janssen;R.R.W. van de Sande;E.O. Noorthoorn;H.L.I. Nijman

  • The use of seclusion in the Netherlands compared to countries in and outside Europe.

    Wim A. Janssen;E.O. Noorthoorn;W.J. de Vries;G.J.M. Hutschemeakers

  • Outcomes of Moral Case Deliberation - the development of an evaluation instrument for clinical ethics support (the Euro-MCD)

    Mia Svantesson;Jan Karlsson;Pierre Boitte;Jan Schildman

Frequent Co-Authors

Tineke A. Abma
Tineke A. Abma Leiden University
Henk Nijman
Henk Nijman Radboud University
Marcus J.H. Huibers
Marcus J.H. Huibers Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Arnoud Arntz
Arnoud Arntz University of Amsterdam
Heleen Riper
Heleen Riper Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Martijn Huisman
Martijn Huisman Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Dorly J. H. Deeg
Dorly J. H. Deeg University of Amsterdam
Judith E. Bosmans
Judith E. Bosmans Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Richard Ashcroft
Richard Ashcroft Queen Mary University of London
Henrica C.W. de Vet
Henrica C.W. de Vet University of Amsterdam

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