• Bmc Health Serv Res · Jan 2012

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    Development of a set of process and structure indicators for palliative care: the Europall project.

    • Kathrin Woitha, Karen Van Beek, Nisar Ahmed, Jeroen Hasselaar, Jean-Marc Mollard, Isabelle Colombet, Lukas Radbruch, Kris Vissers, and Yvonne Engels.
    • Department of Anaesthesiology, Pain and Palliative Medicine, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Geert Grote Plein 10, Nijmegen 6500 HB, The Netherlands. k.woitha@anes.umcn.nl
    • Bmc Health Serv Res. 2012 Jan 1;12:381.

    BackgroundBy measuring the quality of the organisation of palliative care with process and structure quality indicators (QIs), patients, caregivers and policy makers are able to monitor to what extent recommendations are met, like those of the council of the WHO on palliative care and guidelines. This will support the implementation of public programmes, and will enable comparisons between organisations or countries.MethodsAs no European set of indicators for the organisation of palliative care existed, such a set of QIs was developed. An update of a previous systematic review was made and extended with more databases and grey literature. In two project meetings with practitioners and experts in palliative care the development process of a QI set was finalised and the QIs were categorized in a framework, covering the recommendations of the Council of Europe.ResultsThe searches resulted in 151 structure and process indicators, which were discussed in steering group meetings. Of those QIs, 110 were eligible for the final framework.ConclusionsWe developed the first set of QIs for the organisation of palliative care. This article is the first step in a multi step project to identify, validate and pilot QIs.

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