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Data Collection and Measurement


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Post satisfaction surveys tadcock 2 07/01/2010
I am looking for assistance with developing a provider (MD) satisfaction tool as well as pt/family satisfaction tool for pt's who receive palliative care in the hospital. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Post Data Collection tova 2 05/11/2010
prior to building a database for my large integrated health system I was wondering if there are any databases around or registries for palliative care. It would heve to be very detailed, be able to input hundreds of data points on thousands of patients. N ...
Post research idea for the ED with metastatic patients ColleenWhittBell 2 04/20/2010
I am thinking of attempting a reserach project starting in our ED and continuing through the hospitalization. I would like to target metastatic patients with early Palliative Care VS an control group without Palliative Care. I would be looking at goals of ...
Post CMS Inclusion Criteria rhartm01 2 03/24/2010
The CMS inclusion criteria for heart failure data abstraction, page 14 of the Heart Failure Data Abstraction Guide, 3.0b, includes the words Palliative care and Palliative Measures alongside the words brain death, comfort care, comfort measures, comfort m ...
Post Data on nurse run vs physician run PC programs Deb 2 03/19/2010
Hi, I have been running a nurse consultant PC program for nearly 5 yrs now, with only a per diem nurse for back-up. I saw over 500 pts last year and am getting burned out. I have proposed hiring a PC physician a number of times, as well as expanding the t ...
Post O/E ratio ~ re: Mortality mdavis 2 02/10/2010
Who determines the "expected" number of deaths for a hospital?
Post Mortality - Admit to Hospice on Day 1 mdavis 2 02/10/2010
A patient's death is excluded from the mortality calculation IF he/she was admitted to hospice in the 12 months preceding the hospital admission OR on the FIRST day of the hospital admission. It seems highly unlikely that a patient would be admitted to h ...
Post Mortality Cohort Excl / Medicare Pt Clarification dsherman 3 01/14/2010
In the Medicare specs, AMA patients are also excluded from the demoninator. I don't recall that this was discussed during the teleconference today. Also, does the CMS mortality population include primary Medicare FFS patients only or are secondary/terti ...
Post categorizing mortality by diagnosis lhanson 2 01/14/2010
Great presentation - mortality rates will be grouped by diagnosis or procedure codes. Can Brian clarify how the diagnosis or procedure code is selected? First discharge dx / procedure code? Something more specific?
Post Data collection rharri01 2 11/20/2009
What data points should be collected before the implementation of a Palliative Care Program?
Post Outcomes measurement palcare24 3 11/18/2009
Within my organization I receive many of my consults once the patient's condition warrants hospice care. I am currently working to get staff to refer patients to palliative care much earlier. One of the outcomes I thought would help to demonstrate whether ...
Post lower than expected volume mindyshah 4 09/24/2009
We have a 1-year old palliative consult program at a community hospital with 167 med/surg beds and 20 ICU beds. MD FTE is 0.5, with a new NP at 0.5. Our volume is lower than expected given the CAPC algorithm of 5% patients appropriate for consult with a c ...
Post Need help with assessment tools palcare24 2 08/28/2009
I am very new to the palliative care scene and am working to build a CNS directed inpatient palliative care service. I would like to implement the Modififed Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale (ESAS) and the Palliative Performance Scale version 2. I am havi ...
Post Palliative Care Resource Nurses lindavancil 3 10/09/2009
Are there any hospital palliative care programs that have developed a palliative care resource nurse program for their hospital? We would like to develop a program whereby nurses educated on palliative and EOL issues would serve as a resource person and m ...
Post palliative Care Stats- benchmark mherman 3 05/04/2009
I will be presenting my financials to senior leadership next week, I was asked if CAPC has a benchmark for the following. 1. Percentage of consults based on overall acute discharges. 2. % of ICU & hospice referrals based on total number of consults ...
Post survey tool ringram 2 02/23/2009
Does anyone have pain survey tool for professionals to measure: When pt leave Palliative Care Hospital setting into Hospice Setting. To measure how we are doing pain control wise and if hospices are having to ajust and change medications right away. Ho ...
Post midas use NAycock 3 01/15/2009
Our facility has switched to Midas for medical management software. I am interested in whether anyone is using Midas as a tracking/documentation tool to help with data collection and measurement. Our case managers, social workers and UR nurses have rece ...
Post Benchmarked Pt Sat Surveys GainesR 2 02/06/2009
We have Press Ganey in our organization and they seem to have very little support for palliative care. In order to provide me with benchmarking data on outpatient visits, the admin decided to lump me with the oncologists. I don't feel that is an appropr ...
Post Palliative Care research Kahley 3 11/03/2008
Hello, I am mentoring with a Palliative Care and Ethics Director and I am doing research to find; 1. How do established palliative care teams sustain themselves with limited resources and a growing demand? and... 2. What services are typically provide ...
Post Pt Sat Surveys Deb 3 11/07/2008
Hi, I am the only FTE in a nurse consultant PC program and am looking for a pt/family satisfaction survey for a program such as mine. or one that easily adaptable. Anyone done one yet?
Post Outcomes Data: Affecting Early Discharge Mary_RHA 2 11/03/2008
Hello! We are a new Palliative Care consult service for our hospital setting. Is there some criteria that I can reference to demonstrate whether or not our services affect an earlier discharge from the hospital and how to approximate the 'number of days ...
Post National Benchmarks slwillma 2 10/14/2008
My healthcare system is looking to develop a few system-wide quality indicators for our palliative care programs.We are considering tracking pain or symptom control and ICU daily costs pre and post consult.I have not been able to find any benchmarking dat ...
Post Clinical data collection mking 3 10/07/2008
Help! Our program is growing much more rapidly than we can keep up with. Have paper files we need to get in computer form and we're running out of room! We have an excel program that isn't meeting our needs. Any suggestions for appropriate software, and h ...
Post Looking for a good Bereavement or Grief Assessment Dana 2 09/22/2008
We are trying to find a better one then we use currently. Anyone up to sharing theirs?? thanks, Dana
Post Thesis Hoppyswim 3 07/14/2008
I'm attempting to start a thesis for my masters degree. I have narrowed down my question to be: What effect does palliative care have on the chronic heart failure patient's quality of life? I am looking at either using the Edmonton System assessment sca ...
Post Survey Returns Webbdr 4 06/27/2008
Our palliative care program has been consistantly getting low returns or few responses on our family surveys. We have tried mailing surveys and phone calls. The issues that we are running into are: pt family members do not remember who we are. Thus, we ar ...
Post How do we know Palliative Care saves money? Christine 3 11/03/2008
Our consult program has been around 10 years and has been supported because it is the "right thing to do" but has never been asked to justify the costs of the program, until now. What is the best method for comparing people with a pc consult to those w ...
Post Assessments and data collection process elke0519 3 03/11/2008
In our outpatient palliative care program, nurse practitioners provide in-home services. Our assessment and measurement component includes: functional status, mood screen, symptoms, spirituality and social support. These assessments are given at enrollmen ...
Post 2 New Tools for Data Collection & Assessment PCaines 1 02/21/2008
2 new tools, provided by the Symptom Management Service (SMS) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), have been uploaded in the Tools Section of capc.org: 1. UCSF SMS Physician Clinical Data Form 2. UCSF SMS Patient Follow-up Satisfa ...
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