Inaugurated in 1986, Queen Fabiola Children's University Hospital (known by its French acronym as HUDERF) is the only Belgian university hospital entirely DEDICATED TO children's medicine designed specifically for them and for their parents. From birth to adolescence, the children receive the most complete care with respect to both in-patient and out-patient care.
As a medico-surgical hospital of 168 beds, HUDERF has more than 11,000 pediatric in-patients every year. The ambulatory sector (consultations and emergencies) is one of the most important in Belgium and receives more than 100,000 patients per annum.
HUDERF is also a public hospital (Brussels network IRIS) guaranteeing quality care and modern medicine accessible to all children.
Table 1 HUDERF Key Productivity Figures | ||
| Bed capacity | Staff (FTEs) | Traffic/year |
| HUDERF: 168 | ±600 of whom ± 120 physicians | Patient-contacts: 116,959 Hospitalizations: 11,000 Emergencies: 21,978 |
The organization of healthcare provision is described in Table 2.
Table 2. HUDERF Bed Structure
| Surgery | Pediatric | Neonatal Intensive Care Unit | Pediatric Intensive Care Unit | Psychiatry (infants and young children) | Total | |||
| 30 | 90 | 20 | 10 * | 18 | 168 |
Also –
One day pediatric surgical unit: 11 beds
One day pediatric medical unit: 8 beds
Pediatric dialysis unit: (6 beds) hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis
HUDERF is the official reference centre for -
- Pediatric academic medicine of the Université Libre de Bruxelles
- Hemodialysis and chronic kidney diseases
- Cystic fibrosis
- Allergy
- Sleep disturbances
- Non invasive ventilation
- Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
- Diabetes
- Cerebral palsy
- Autism
- Bone Marrow transplantation
- Obesity
- Neonatalogy
- Inherited metabolic diseases
- Deafness
Transplantations activities:
- bone marrow: about 11/yr
- kidney (included if combined with liver or pancreas): about 5/yr
- cardiac: about 1/yr
Many departments have various specialist clinics. HUDERF is a high-tech Healthcare Institution offering, with few exceptions, all diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive techniques available today.
Further details about HUDERF can be found on the Institution’s website.
For information about clinical research at HUDERF, click on the buttons below.
- General organizational chart: shows the place of the CRU in the management structure of the hospital;
- CRU organizational chart: presents the staff dedicated to the CRU;
- List of publications: all publications of hospital staff since 2005
- LEC schedule - dates of scheduled meetings of the Local Ethics Committee
- Pictures of CRU
- Directions to CRU: map of the main site (Victor Horta) and accesses by road, tram, bus, metro or train. Parking is available on site. Access is via the main entrance.
Crossover has developed a factbook about the clinical research potential of CHU Brugmann.
For a copy, please contact Jean-Pierre Tassignon, President & CEO (Jean-Pierre.Tassignon@crossover-cri.com).