ArticlePalliative care and social practice2023
The compassionate communities connectors program: effect on healthcare usage.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Patient and family perspectives on rural palliative care models: A systematic review and meta-synthesis.Palliative medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Public Health Palliative Care: A commitment to dying, death, and grief in Canada.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2026Article
- Awareness and knowledge of palliative care in Tripoli, Lebanon: A cross-sectional study in a disadvantaged population.Palliative care and social practice · 2026Article
- Shifting the aged care culture from caring "for" residents to caring "about" residents: Advocating for a compassionate communities approach to care.Palliative care and social practice · 2026Article
- Connecting Care Closer to Home: Evaluation of a Regional Motor Neurone Disease Multidisciplinary Clinic.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Demystifying Compassionate Communities.Palliative care and social practice · 2025Article
- Connecting communities across the globe: Atlas protocol.Palliative care and social practice · 2025Article
- The role of a death and grief festival in cultivating awareness of serious illness, death, and bereavement at university: A qualitative study of students' and staff's motivations and experiences with Compassionate Week activities.Palliative care and social practice · 2025Article
- A long way from Frome: improving connections between patients, local services and communities to reduce emergency admissions.BMC primary care · 2024Article
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Abstract
Background: Public health approaches to palliative and end-of-life care focus on enhancing the integration of services and providing a comprehensive approach that engages the assets of local communities. However, few studies have evaluated the relative costs and benefits of providing care using these service models. Objectives: To assess the effect on healthcare usage of a community-based palliative care program ('Compassionate Communities Connectors') where practical and social support was delivered by community volunteers to people living with advanced life-limiting illnesses in regional Western Australia. Design: Controlled before-and-after study/Cost-consequence analysis. Methods: A total of 43 community-based patients participated in the program during the period 2020-2022. A comparator population of 172 individuals with advanced life-limiting illnesses was randomly selected from usage data from the same set of health services. Results: Relative to controls, the intervention group had lower hospitalizations per month [Incidence rate ratio (IRR): 0.37; 95% CI: 0.18-0.77, Conclusion: This combined healthcare usage and economic analysis of the 'Compassionate Communities Connectors' program demonstrates the benefits of optimizing palliative care services using home-based and community-centered interventions, with gains for the health system through improved patient outcomes and reduced total healthcare costs (including fewer hospitalizations and readmissions). These findings, coupled with the other published results, suggest that investment in the Connectors program has the capacity to reduce net health sector expenditure while also improving outcomes for people with life-limiting illnesses. Trial Registration: Australian and New Zealand Clinical Trial Registry: ACTRN12620000326998.
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