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Quality of palliative care for patients with advanced cancer in a community consortium.

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Kamal, AH; Nipp, RD; Bull, JH; Stinson, CS; Lowery, AW; Nicolla, JM; Abernethy, AP
Published in: J Pain Symptom Manage
February 2015

BACKGROUND: Measuring quality of care delivery is essential to palliative care program growth and sustainability. We formed the Carolinas Consortium for Palliative Care and collected a quality data registry to monitor our practice and inform quality improvement efforts. MEASURES: We analyzed all palliative care consultations in patients with cancer in our quality registry from March 2008 through October 2011 using 18 palliative care quality measures. Descriptive metric adherence was calculated after analyzing the relevant population for measurement. INTERVENTION: We used a paper-based, prospective method to monitor adherence for quality measures in a community-based palliative care consortium. OUTCOMES: We demonstrate that measures evaluating process assessment (range 63%-100%), as opposed to interventions (range 3%-17%), are better documented. CONCLUSIONS/LESSONS LEARNED: Analyzing data on quality is feasible and valuable in community-based palliative care. Overall, processes to collect data on quality using nontechnology methods may underestimate true adherence to quality measures.

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J Pain Symptom Manage

DOI

EISSN

1873-6513

Publication Date

February 2015

Volume

49

Issue

2

Start / End Page

289 / 292

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Registries
  • Quality of Health Care
  • Prospective Studies
  • Palliative Care
  • Neoplasms
  • Middle Aged
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Delivery of Health Care
 

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Kamal, A. H., Nipp, R. D., Bull, J. H., Stinson, C. S., Lowery, A. W., Nicolla, J. M., & Abernethy, A. P. (2015). Quality of palliative care for patients with advanced cancer in a community consortium. J Pain Symptom Manage, 49(2), 289–292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2014.05.024
Kamal, Arif H., Ryan D. Nipp, Janet H. Bull, Charles S. Stinson, Ashlei W. Lowery, Jonathan M. Nicolla, and Amy P. Abernethy. “Quality of palliative care for patients with advanced cancer in a community consortium.J Pain Symptom Manage 49, no. 2 (February 2015): 289–92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2014.05.024.
Kamal AH, Nipp RD, Bull JH, Stinson CS, Lowery AW, Nicolla JM, et al. Quality of palliative care for patients with advanced cancer in a community consortium. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2015 Feb;49(2):289–92.
Kamal, Arif H., et al. “Quality of palliative care for patients with advanced cancer in a community consortium.J Pain Symptom Manage, vol. 49, no. 2, Feb. 2015, pp. 289–92. Pubmed, doi:10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2014.05.024.
Kamal AH, Nipp RD, Bull JH, Stinson CS, Lowery AW, Nicolla JM, Abernethy AP. Quality of palliative care for patients with advanced cancer in a community consortium. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2015 Feb;49(2):289–292.
Journal cover image

Published In

J Pain Symptom Manage

DOI

EISSN

1873-6513

Publication Date

February 2015

Volume

49

Issue

2

Start / End Page

289 / 292

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Registries
  • Quality of Health Care
  • Prospective Studies
  • Palliative Care
  • Neoplasms
  • Middle Aged
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Delivery of Health Care