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Development of a set of process and structure indicators for palliative care: the Europall project.
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- A systematic review and critical appraisal of quality indicators to assess optimal palliative care for older people with dementia.Palliative medicine · 2019Pooled it
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- Perceptions of Quality of Interprofessional Collaboration, Staff Well-Being and Nonbeneficial Treatment: A Comparison between Nurses and Physicians in Intensive and Palliative Care.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- A multi-stage process to develop quality indicators for community-based palliative care using interRAI data.PloS one · 2022Article
- Potential quality indicators for seriously ill home care clients: a cross-sectional analysis using Resident Assessment Instrument for Home Care (RAI-HC) data for Ontario.BMC palliative care · 2019Article
- Pediatric Palliative Care in Iran: Applying Regionalization of Health Care SystemsAsian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2018Article
- The Impact of Measuring Patient-Reported Outcome Measures on Quality of and Access to Palliative Care.Journal of palliative medicine · 2018Review
- Improving palliative care in selected settings in England using quality indicators: a realist evaluation.BMC palliative care · 2016Article
- MASCC/ESMO/EAPC survey of palliative programs.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2015Article
- Palliative care development in Latin America: an analysis using macro indicators.Palliative medicine · 2014Article
- Face-validation of quality indicators for the organization of palliative care in hospitals in Indonesia: a contribution to quality improvement.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2014Article
- Consensus on quality indicators to assess the organisation of palliative cancer and dementia care applicable across national healthcare systems and selected by international experts.BMC health services research · 2014Article
- A Comparison of Symptom Management for Children with Cancer in Iran and in the Selected Countries: A Comparative Study.Indian journal of palliative careArticle
- Palliative Care for Children with Cancer in the Middle East: A Comparative Study.Indian journal of palliative careArticle
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Abstract
backgroundBy measuring the quality of the organisation of palliative care with process and structure quality indicators (QIs), patients, caregivers and policy makers are able to monitor to what extent recommendations are met, like those of the council of the WHO on palliative care and guidelines. This will support the implementation of public programmes, and will enable comparisons between organisations or countries.
methodsAs no European set of indicators for the organisation of palliative care existed, such a set of QIs was developed. An update of a previous systematic review was made and extended with more databases and grey literature. In two project meetings with practitioners and experts in palliative care the development process of a QI set was finalised and the QIs were categorized in a framework, covering the recommendations of the Council of Europe.
resultsThe searches resulted in 151 structure and process indicators, which were discussed in steering group meetings. Of those QIs, 110 were eligible for the final framework.
conclusionsWe developed the first set of QIs for the organisation of palliative care. This article is the first step in a multi step project to identify, validate and pilot QIs.
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