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Post Palliative Care Screening Tool
Author: JGordon84
Date: Feb 7, 2012 10:11 pm
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 data soon and am planning on implementing a PCST. I am leaning towards Caring Criteria which is a tool that gives an actual score and the score corresponds to whether a PC consult is needed for a pt. I am attempting to embed the Caring Criteria in the Medicine Service's admission order set so that all Medicine pt's are screened for a PC consult.

Has anyone implemented an admission screen at their institution? What is the best way to reach all Medicine interns/residents?

Would just like to hear some experiences, thanks!

Jackie Gordon RN, BSN, CCRN
UTHSCSA Graduate Nursing Student
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Re:Palliative Care Screening Tool (by kkerr on 02/08/2012)
Hello,

An excellent review of this issue, including a very useful reference list, is available in a paper by Dr’s Weissman and Meier; “Identifying Patients in Need of a Palliative Care Assessment in the Hospital Setting; A Consensus Report from the Center to Advance Palliative Care.”
The paper is available in the New Tools section of the CAPC web site:

http://www.capc.org/tools-for-palliative-care-programs/new-tools/

Regards,
Kathleen Kerr
Senior Analyst
University of California San Francisco, Palliative Care Leadership Center

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