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Data Collection and Measurement


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Post Benchmarks for looking at the Impact of PM rmsmith65nc 2 05/09/2013
We are looking to see if there are any benchmarks for (1) Average Length of Stay under PM before transitioning to hospice (2) Average length of stay under hospice by patients who were referred by PM (3) What percent of patients die under PM
Post Family Care Conference in the ICU tool ICURN4PC 2 04/30/2013
I am piloting a small study in my ICU for Care Conferences and am looking for a tool to measure family satisfaction. We are a 20 bed neuro/trauma/surgical ICU with an open unit model in a community hospital of approx 500 beds. If anyone out there has a si ...
Post NQF Preferred Practices YAP 1 03/19/2013
Our Palliative Care program is working on aligning its program with the NQF preferred practices. We are getting ready to work on the Processes of Care which is to ask patients and caregivers to assess “physicians’/healthcare professionals’ ability t ...
Post data collection maryg 2 02/20/2013
Is there any data available that recomends what percentage of our patient should have a oncology diagnosis vs cardiac etc? I feel our oncology numbers are low but can't locate an expected number.
Post Standard items in a palliative care consultation peihang 2 02/19/2013
Are there any templates or documents of what items of discussion should be addressed during a palliative consultation? The only thing I've found so far is in Weissman's 2008 paper on Palliative Consultation Service metrics and I'm looking to see if anyon ...
Post Conversational Planning Russe346 1 02/05/2013
Hello Valued Members of the Palliative Care, My name is Jessica Russell and I am a doctoral student investigating conversational planning and end of life care. I am currently recruiting practitioners from a range of disciplines to offer their insight t ...
Post Ipad apps for data/billing/rounding drewdaigle 1 01/26/2013
We are moving to Ipads for our providers to use for rounding, data collection, and billing (E/M codes and ICD code input by providers). Reviews and recs on apps/programs? Anyone using Fluentmedical.com ipatient? Thanks. -Drew Daigle in Jacksonville, FL
Post Predictive analytic tools K07114 2 02/02/2013
Does anyone know of any predictive analytic tools that help us identify individuals who are potentially in the last year of their life. Thank you!
Post Data Collection KMick 2 01/24/2013
Can anyone share their method of data collection that is showing the cost effectiveness of palliative care in the hospital setting?
Post Value-Based Purchasing lbogmd 2 02/06/2013
Is anyone aware of any studies linking the benefits of a palliative care program with a positive effect on hospital VBP data?
Post Measuring Provider Productivity dmcdougald 2 04/18/2013
I'm looking for some tools/ratios used to measure provider productivity. Are there any benchmarks currently in place?
Post benchmark data specific to cancer diagnosis efracchia 2 04/18/2013
Is there a specific recommendation/benchmark data to indicate quality palliative care programs in regard to referrals for patients specifically with cancer diagnoses. In partnering with our oncology group we are trying to document improvement in utilizati ...
Post Unexpected Death Audit tool Sally_Brown 1 09/18/2012
I work in a community-based palliative care organisation in Melbourne (Australia) and was wondering if anyone has a tool they use to audit 'unexpected' deaths? This was brought up at our recent accreditation visit as someting we should consider but there ...
Post Corporate Practice of Medicine Doctrine lorakajan 1 08/28/2012
Hello All, I had a question regarding the Corporate Practice of Medicine Doctrine.. Is it possible for a physician to form an entity or business in which he could operate under, and will it allow him to then practice medicine in multiple states without ...
Post acuity scale DharmaDoc 1 07/19/2012
Sounds like something that would be useful to post. If not, may I have a copy too?
Post validation tool for "all about me" maryspiller 3 09/18/2012
I am working on a project with a breast cancer survivor. She wants to develop a patient driven information booklet on the order of "all about me" because she recognized she could have died and there was so much her family did not know about her. She think ...
Post data collection- symptom data mherman 2 07/11/2012
Hello, Need help , What symptom data are you collecting on your patients? Are you using any specific tools to collect the data, and what is your process? Thank you, appreciate your suggestions Marianne Herman marianne.herman@atlanticare.org ...
Post hospice beds on inpt mortality reporting chaie01 2 07/11/2012
Our hospital is considering adding hospice beds to our inpatient unit with the hope of decreasing hospital mortality. Does anyone know of any recent changes (in the last few months)on whether inpatient hospice pts are counted toward hospital mortality?
Post Validated tool for initiation of palliative care LisaFrostRN 3 07/03/2012
I was wondering if there are any tools which are validated for initiation of palliative care. Specifically for use in assessing patients who palliative care woud be appropriate for. I am familiar with the latest article with rcommendations but are there a ...
Post Need/education assessment sredding 3 06/01/2012
Our leadership has asked for help in developing a tool to assess knowledge of and need for palliative care services throughout our healthcare system - medical center (with an existing service) and several rural hospitals. Can someone direct me to a survey ...
Post Tool for Retrospective Review of Goals of Care pennyholt 3 05/21/2012
I am looking for a quality measurement tool for retrospective chart review. We will be measuring the development, implementation and communication of the goals of care for our inpatient palliative care patients. Any help would be greatly appreciated. ...
Post Measuring Improvement tericox 2 03/27/2012
Are there any benchmarks that measure statistically significant improvement in pain after administration of pain meds. For example; if you are using an ESAS scale at you assess the patient score=8 and then you reassess post-meds. score =7. Is that a stati ...
Post Consults/100 admissions metric aherman 2 03/05/2012
I'm trying to adopt the consensus metrics published for palliative care consult services (Weissman, Meier, Spragens in JPM 2008) "To accurately capture the depth of palliative care service integration, the total number of hospital admissions used as th ...
Post Quality and Mortality questions rsawicki 4 03/05/2012
Does anyone have a good way to identify patients who would be appropriate to exclude from mortality or quality statistics for reporting to payers and others? The V66.7 is essentially useless, but our data and decision support folks are wondering if there ...
Post Examples of Physician Consult H&Ps STLPallMed 2 03/01/2012
I just started an inpatient Palliative Care consult service at my hospital. I understand the requirements for E/M coding/billing and have made an initial consult template so that all pertinent info is collected. However I find myself strugging to find the ...
Post Premier Data ChesapeakeMD 1 02/22/2012
Does anyone use Premier, Inc. for operational meodel/financial model for your PC program? Our hospital is now measuring our program's staffing/productivity on Premier's guidelines.
Post Definition of High Impact bishoplr 2 02/21/2012
Hello, Our health system is working on standardizing palliative metrics across all our affiliates and across care settings. Can anyone share with me your definition of "high impact" when measuring the value of your inpatient palliative care program? Tha ...
Post Readmissions Weissman 1 02/13/2012
CAPC is looking for programs that have demonstrated a reduction in hospital readmissions as a direct effect of their palliative care work. If you have such data, please contact me via email. Thanks David Weissman, MD CAPC Consultant dweissma@mcw.edu
Post Palliative Care Screening Tool JGordon84 2 02/08/2012
Hi all! I am working on a QI project for our Palliative Care Program, we are a consult service at a large teaching institution. The project is aiming towards obtaining consults earlier in the pt's stay. I am hoping to obtain LOS prior to PC consult dat ...
Post Joint Commission Certification for Palliative Care Lustbader 2 02/07/2012
We had our site visit for Joint Commission Advanced Certification for Palliative Care two days ago. It was one of the most validating experiences for our entire palliative care team which began in 2005. The survey process was fair, interesting and ben ...
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