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The quality imperative for palliative care.

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Kamal, AH; Hanson, LC; Casarett, DJ; Dy, SM; Pantilat, SZ; Lupu, D; Abernethy, AP
Published in: J Pain Symptom Manage
February 2015

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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J Pain Symptom Manage

DOI

EISSN

1873-6513

Publication Date

February 2015

Volume

49

Issue

2

Start / End Page

243 / 253

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • United States
  • Research Design
  • Quality of Health Care
  • Palliative Care
  • Humans
  • Health Care Reform
  • Anesthesiology
  • 42 Health sciences
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences
  • 11 Medical and Health Sciences
 

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Kamal, A. H., Hanson, L. C., Casarett, D. J., Dy, S. M., Pantilat, S. Z., Lupu, D., & Abernethy, A. P. (2015). The quality imperative for palliative care. J Pain Symptom Manage, 49(2), 243–253. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2014.06.008
Kamal, Arif H., Laura C. Hanson, David J. Casarett, Sydney M. Dy, Steven Z. Pantilat, Dale Lupu, and Amy P. Abernethy. “The quality imperative for palliative care.J Pain Symptom Manage 49, no. 2 (February 2015): 243–53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2014.06.008.
Kamal AH, Hanson LC, Casarett DJ, Dy SM, Pantilat SZ, Lupu D, et al. The quality imperative for palliative care. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2015 Feb;49(2):243–53.
Kamal, Arif H., et al. “The quality imperative for palliative care.J Pain Symptom Manage, vol. 49, no. 2, Feb. 2015, pp. 243–53. Pubmed, doi:10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2014.06.008.
Kamal AH, Hanson LC, Casarett DJ, Dy SM, Pantilat SZ, Lupu D, Abernethy AP. The quality imperative for palliative care. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2015 Feb;49(2):243–253.
Journal cover image

Published In

J Pain Symptom Manage

DOI

EISSN

1873-6513

Publication Date

February 2015

Volume

49

Issue

2

Start / End Page

243 / 253

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • United States
  • Research Design
  • Quality of Health Care
  • Palliative Care
  • Humans
  • Health Care Reform
  • Anesthesiology
  • 42 Health sciences
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences
  • 11 Medical and Health Sciences