Timo Soeterik

175 General Discussion and Future Perspectives of this thesis, substantial progression has been made regarding the data-infrastructure and data quality. It can be expected that the interaction between the quality improvement initiatives and research projects will remain successful in the future. The studies described in this thesis are exemplary for the way VBHC and research can complement each other. By using the novel insights presented in this thesis for quality improvement initiatives, quality of prostate cancer care will hopefully further improve and become more efficient. Prolongation of VBHC and its included multidisciplinary meetings ensures reflection on the quality of clinical prostate cancer care, and enables the identification of areas requiring improvement. The insights gained by these evaluations will hopefully keep inspiring other researchers and lead to novel valuable prostate cancer studies. 10