ArticleJournal of pain and symptom management2015
The quality imperative for palliative care.
Article in Journal of pain and symptom management, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.
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20 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Community out-of-hours palliative care - 'It's a patchwork of services': A qualitative study exploring care provision.Palliative medicine · 2025Article
- Effects of High-Resolution Natural Sound with Inaudible High-Frequency Components on Healing, Symptoms, and Sleep Satisfaction in Terminally Ill Cancer Patients.Palliative medicine reports · 2025Article
- Variation in Palliative Care Program Performance for Patients With Metastatic Cancer.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2025Article
- Intersection of Palliative Care and Hospice Use Among Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer.Journal of palliative medicine · 2023Article
- Bundle of care to drive improvements in palliative and end-of-life care (PEOLC) in an acute tertiary hospital.BMJ open quality · 2023Article
- The importance of developing palliative care quality indicators for the prison setting: why now, and next steps.BMC palliative care · 2023Article
- Measuring Pediatric Palliative Care Quality: Challenges and Opportunities.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2023Article
- Satisfaction with care provided by home-based palliative care service to the cancer patients in Dhaka City of Bangladesh: A cross-sectional study.Health science reports · 2022Article
- Using Natural Language Processing to Classify Serious Illness Communication with Oncology Patients.AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science · 2022Article
- Perceptions of Facilitators and Barriers to Measuring and Improving Quality in Palliative Care Programs.The American journal of hospice & palliative care · 2020Article
- Standards, Guidelines, and Quality Measures for Successful Specialty Palliative Care Integration Into Oncology: Current Approaches and Future Directions.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2020Review
- Dying in acute hospitals: voices of bereaved relatives.BMC palliative care · 2019Article
- Characteristics and Trends Among Patients With Cardiovascular Disease Referred to Palliative Care.JAMA network open · 2019Observational
- Evaluation of the Measuring and Improving Quality in Palliative Care Survey.Journal of oncology practice · 2018Article
- Using Electronic Health Records for Quality Measurement and Accountability in Care of the Seriously Ill: Opportunities and Challenges.Journal of palliative medicine · 2018Article
- A Survey to Evaluate Facilitators and Barriers to Quality Measurement and Improvement: Adapting Tools for Implementation Research in Palliative Care Programs.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2017Article
- Addressing Palliative Care Clinician Burnout in Organizations: A Workforce Necessity, an Ethical Imperative.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2017Article
- Improving the Quality of Palliative Care Through National and Regional Collaboration Efforts.Cancer control : journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center · 2015Review
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Abstract
Palliative medicine must prioritize the routine assessment of the quality of clinical care we provide. This includes regular assessment, analysis, and reporting of data on quality. Assessment of quality informs opportunities for improvement and demonstrates to our peers and ourselves the value of our efforts. In fact, continuous messaging of the value of palliative care services is needed to sustain our discipline; this requires regularly evaluating the quality of our care. As the reimbursement mechanisms for health care in the U.S. shift from fee-for-service to fee-for-value models, palliative care will be expected to report robust data on quality of care. We must move beyond demonstrating to our constituents (including patients and referrers), "here is what we do," and increase the focus on "this is how well we do it" and "let us see how we can do it better." It is incumbent on palliative care professionals to lead these efforts. This involves developing standardized methods to collect data without adding additional burden, comparing and sharing our experiences to promote discipline-wide quality assessment and improvement initiatives, and demonstrating our intentions for quality improvement on the clinical frontline.
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