Center to Advance Palliative Care

The list of measures you describe would give quite a comprehensive picture of the patient's clinical status over time, and represent the domains of palliative care. Would it make sense to add presence of advance directives/proxy identification? Many programs are using the palliative performance scale as a measure of functional status appropriate to palliative care patients. Another view would be to think about the goals of your program and how you might measure progress. What you will use the data for guides decisions about what to collect and how often--one example would be if you are attempting to increase the number of admissions to hospice. Meaurement is primarily about learning--clear identification of what is behind your current reassessment will help.
Lyn Ceronsky Director, Palliative Care, Fairview, PCLC Faculty