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ReviewJournal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology2020

Standards, Guidelines, and Quality Measures for Successful Specialty Palliative Care Integration Into Oncology: Current Approaches and Future Directions.

Arif H Kamal, Claudia Bausewein, David J Casarett, David C Currow, Deborah J Dudgeon, Irene J Higginson

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Review in Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Arif H KamalDuke Cancer Institute, Durham, NC.
Claudia BauseweinLudwig-Maximilians University (LMU) Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
David J CasarettDuke Health, Durham, NC.
David C CurrowUniversity of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Deborah J DudgeonCanadian Partnership Against Cancer, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Irene J HigginsonCicely Saunders Institute, London, United Kingdom.

Funding

Which palliative care quality measures improve patient-centered outcomes?K08HS023681 · AHRQ · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI KAMAL, ARIF · 2015 to 2019
$733k
AHRQ HHS K08 HS023681
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although robust evidence demonstrates that specialty palliative care integrated into oncology care improves patient and health system outcomes, few clinicians are familiar with the standards, guidelines, and quality measures related to integration. These types of guidance outline principles of best practice and provide a framework for assessing the fidelity of their implementation. Significant advances in the understanding of effective methods and procedures to guide integration of specialty palliative care into oncology have led to a proliferation of guidance documents around the world, with several areas of commonality but also some key differences. Commonalities originate from a shared vision for integration; differences arise from diverse roles of palliative care specialists within cancer care globally. In this review we discuss three of the most cited standards/guidelines, as well as quality measures related to integrated palliative and oncology care. We also recommend changes to the quality measurement framework for palliative care and a new way to match palliative care services to patients with advanced cancer on the basis of care complexity and patient needs, irrespective of prognosis.

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Models, OrganizationalAdvance Care PlanningDelivery of Health Care, IntegratedDisease ManagementHumansNeoplasmsPalliative CarePractice Guidelines as TopicQuality of Health Care

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PMID32023165
PMCPMC7082154

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