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- Title
Center to Advance Palliative Care Palliative Care Consultation Service Metrics: Consensus Recommendations.
- Authors
Weissman, David E.; Meier, Diane E.; Spragens, Lynn Hill
- Abstract
The need to standardize the prospective collection and analysis of data has been a cornerstone of education and technical assistance provided by the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC). Data analysis is vital for strategic planning, quality improvement, and demonstration of program impact to hospital administrators, private funders, and policymakers. To develop a set of core measures, CAPC convened a consensus panel in 2008 to focus on the topic of operational metrics for consultation services. Operational metrics, as distinct from clinical, customer and financial metrics, describe the characteristics of patients seen on the consultation service, such as age, disease, location, referring service and disposition. The panel arrived at 12 metric domains, all but one of which can be used for either internal programmatic use or for external comparisons of service characteristics/impact between different hospitals. In an effort to ensure access to reliably high-quality palliative care data throughout the nation, hospital palliative care consultation teams are encouraged to collect and report outcomes for each of the twelve metric domains described here.
- Subjects
HOSPICE care; PALLIATIVE care education; HOSPITAL personnel; HEALTH services administrators; MEDICAL consultation; DATA analysis; TRAINING
- Publication
Journal of Palliative Medicine, 2008, Vol 11, Issue 10, p1294
- ISSN
1096-6218
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1089/jpm.2008.0178