April 14, 2011
“Workforce shortages, late referrals, and palliative care program resource constraints present significant barriers to meeting the needs of hospitalized patients facing serious illnesses. The Center to Advance Palliative Care convened a consensus panel to select criteria by which patients at high risk for unmet palliative care needs can be identified in advance for a palliative care screening assessment. The consensus panel developed primary and secondary criteria for two checklists—one to use for screening at the time of admission and one for daily patient rounds. The consensus panel believes that by implementing a checklist approach to screening patients for unmet palliative care needs, combined with educational initiatives and other system-change work, hospital staff engaged in day-to-day patient care can identify a majority of such needs, reserving specialty palliative care services for more complex problems.”
Posted in Journal Articles, READ Portal | Tagged with Hospice care, Palliative care, Patient-centered care, Quality of care | No Comments
March 24, 2011
This report focuses on importance of planning for end-of-life care. It seeks to help healthcare managers, policy makers, government officials, and healthcare consumers achieve the following goals:
- “Inform and Empower (healthcare users);
- Support A Health Care System that Ensures High-Quality Patient-Centered Care;
- Ensure A Knowledgeable, Competent, and Compassionate Workforce;
- Create Financing Structures that Promote Patient-Centered Care;
- Create A Responsible Entity to Ensure Excellence and Accountability;
- Employ Quality Indicators and Performance Measurement.”
The report advocates finding out what patients really want and meeting these wants through advance care planning, palliative care systems, and hospice planning. This approach improves overall quality of life for patients and helps families and friends overcome loss.
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- Inform and Empower (healthcare users)
- Support A Health Care System that Ensures High-Quality Patient-Centered Care
- Ensure A Knowledgeable, Competent, and Compassionate Workforce
- Create Financing Structures that Promote Patient-Centered Care
- Create A Responsible Entity to Ensure Excellence and Accountability
- Employ Quality Indicators and Performance Measurement
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The report advocates finding out what patients really want and meeting these wants through advance care planning, palliative care systems, and hospice planning. This approach improves overall quality of life for patients and helps families and friends overcome loss.
Posted in READ Portal, Reports & Papers | Tagged with Access to care, Health care reform, Health services for the aged, Hospice care, Palliative care, Patient-centered care | No Comments
December 21, 2010
People are living longer, but with increasingly complex health problems; this, together with the need to take account of patients’ preferences, highlights the importance of end-of life care and the increasing investment that will be required in this area of care.The current financial crisis and the reform of the health service should not be allowed to distract from the need for innovation and improvement in the quality of end-of-life care. Indeed, such changes could also promote efficiency savings as well as improve quality.
Posted in READ Portal, Reports & Papers | Tagged with Economics, Hospice care, Patient satisfaction, Patient-centered care, Quality improvement, Quality of care | No Comments
December 20, 2010
The objective of this research was to develop a case finding method that can be used as the basis for an hospice or palliative care referral for inpatient cancer patients. This was a retrospective study using secondary data from administrative sources. The analysis used five years – FY2001 through FY2005 – of inpatient data from the VA National Patient Care Database (NPCD) to identify patients.
Posted in READ Portal, Working Papers | Tagged with Cancer, Hospice care, Mortality rates | No Comments
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