UZ Brussel
The UZ Brussel is a university hospital with almost 4,000 employees. With 721 hospital beds, the hospital has more than 30,000 admissions per year, almost as many day admissions, 360,000 consultations, and this for patients from Belgium and abroad.
© UZ Brussel
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A fully-fledged partner in the (university) hospital landscape in Flanders, in Brussels and in the world
Research The UZ Brussel and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), which are linked to each other, are together a typical ‘research institution’. After all, in addition to care and education, research is an essential task of a university hospital. Scientific research guarantees the positive evolution of medicine for the benefit of the patient. For the VUB and the UZ Brussel, scientific research is directly linked to scientific ethics and integrity. In this context, they subscribe to several charters. The research at the UZ Brussel and the VUB is free, based on the right of initiative and on independent and critical thinking. It always focuses on people.
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he UZ Brussel offers complete medical care, consisting of various specialisms. Moreover, this is inextricably linked to its training function at a university hospital. A medical training can only be organised if the hospital has the full range of clinical care on offer. Another important focus is scientific research.
An important part of the clinical research carried out at the UZ Brussel are the clinical trials that are intended to be carried out to determine or confirm the clinical, pharmacological and/or other pharmacodynamic effects of one or more investigational medicinal products, and/or to report any adverse reaction(s) to one or more investigational medicinal product(s), and/or to study the absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of one or more investigational medicinal product(s). All this in order to establish the safety and/or efficacy of these medicinal products. Examples of clinical trials carried out by the UZ Brussel include “Cerebral effect of paracetamol measured by f-MRI”, “Histological and Transcriptional Changes caused by Endometrial Flushing with Lipiodol: A Cross Over Study”, “N-acetylcysteine for the treatment of cannabis dependence: working mechanisms”, “Evaluation of 68GaNOTA-Anti-HER2 VHH1 uptake in brain metastasis of breast carcinoma patients”, and “Initiation of ovarian stimulation with recombinant-human FSH (Bemfola®) in the late follicular phase, a randomised controlled study”.
Since its foundation in 1977, the UZ Brussel has grown into a fully-fledged partner in the (university) hospital landscape in Flanders, in Brussels and in the world.
Expertise In addition to classic primary care, the UZ Brussel has developed its own areas of expertise. The most well-known ones are represented by 7 centres of excellence: the Centre for Cardiovascular Diseases (CHVZ), the Medical Imaging Centre, the Centre for Reproductive Medicine (CRG), the Medical Genetics Centre, the Diabetes clinic, the Children's Hospital: KidZ Health Castle, and the Oncological centre. In addition to these centres of excellence, the UZ Brussel has many other areas of expertise and acts as a multi-disciplinary third and fourth-line reference centre. Its domains of expertise include skin diseases, paediatrics, neurology and surgery, oral, maxillofacial and facial surgery, ophthalmology, plastic surgery, and urgent medicine. On top of that the UZ Brussel has set up multi-disciplinary third and fourth line reference centres: the Aortic clinic, the Breast clinic, the Constipation clinic, the Lymphedema clinic, the Centre for Rare Diseases, the Memory clinic, the Mucoviscidosis clinic, the Multiple miscarriage clinic, the Obesity clinic, the Oncofertility Clinic, the Pain clinic, the Travel clinic, and the Spine clinic.
Tomorrow's care I We build for you By mid-2027, the UZ Brussel will undergo a real metamorphosis. The hospital is creating a care environment that fits in with its vision of the future. The realisation of the entire Medical Technical Block is planned for 2027. At that time, the new surgical day hospital will also be ready. These are great news for the future patients of the UZ Brussel! www.uzbrussel.be 86
