• Karl A Lorenz, Jake Mickelsen, Nandini Vallath, Sushma Bhatnagar, Odette Spruyt, Michael Rabow, Meera Agar, Sydney M Dy, Karen Anderson, Jayita Deodhar, Leela Digamurti, Gayatri Palat, Spandana Rayala, M M Sunilkumar, Vidya Viswanath, Jyothi Jayan Warrier, Sarbani Gosh-Laskar, Stephanie M Harman, Karleen F Giannitrapani, Anchal Satija, C S Pramesh, and Michelle DeNatale.
• VA Palo Alto Healthcare System, Palo Alto, California, USA; Section of Palliative Care, Division of Primary Care and Population Health, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA. Electronic address: kalorenz@stanford.edu.
• J Pain Symptom Manage. 2021 Jan 1; 61 (1): 190-197.

AbstractMentors at seven U.S. and Australian academic institutions initially partnered with seven leading Indian academic palliative care and cancer centers in 2017 to undertake a program combining remote and in-person mentorship, didactic instruction, and project-based learning in quality improvement (QI). From its inception in 2017 to 2020, the Palliative Care-Promoting Accesst and Improvement of the Cancer Experience Program conducted three cohorts for capacity building of 22 Indian palliative care and cancer programs. Indian leadership established a Mumbai QI training hub in 2019 with philanthropic support. In 2020, the project which is now named Enable Quality, Improve Patient care - India (EQuIP-India) focuses on both palliative care and cancer teams. EQuIP-India now leads ongoing Indian national collaboratives and training in QI and is integrated into India's National Cancer Grid. Palliative Care-Promoting Accesst and Improvement of the Cancer Experience demonstrates a feasible model of international collaboration and capacity building in palliative care and cancer QI. It is one of the several networked and blended learning approaches with potential for rapid scaling of evidence-based practices.Published by Elsevier Inc.

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