Improving Palliative Care
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Improvement Tools
Clinicians working in Emergency Medicine require easy-to-use tools that can improve patient care and increase efficiency. IPAL-EM has gathered clinical tools such as charting forms and pocket cards from palliative care providers and Emergency Department clinicians across the country for free distribution.
Templates/Forms
- Family Conference Progress Note (Froedert Hospital)
- Family Conference Progress Note (Central Baptist)
Quality Monitoring Tools
- Primary Palliative Care Trigger Criteria (CAPC Consensus)
- Family Witnessed Resuscitation Checklist (Emory University Hospital Midtown)
Pocket Cards
- Family Presence During Resuscitation Reference Card (Emory University)
- The Family Goal-Setting Conference (Mount Sinai Medical Center)
- Communication Phrases in Palliative Care (MCW)
- V.A.L.U.E. Card - Mnemonic for Family Conferences
- Pain Card (Mount Sinai Medical Center)
- Pain Card (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Policies/Protocols
- Withdrawal of Life Support Orders
- Orders for Withdrawal of Life Support (Puget Sound VA)
- Withdrawal of Mechanical Ventilation Protocol (Froedert Hospital, Medical College of Wisconsin)
- Futility Policy (2007 - Froedert Hospital, Medical College of Wisconsin)
- Guidelines for Use of Pentobarbital for Total Sedation and Ventilator Withdrawal (Froedert Hospital, Medical College of Wisconsin)
Other Tools/Resources
- Identification of Palliative Care Patients in the ED - ID-PC-ED Presentation-1 (Baylor Health Care System)
- Identification of Palliative Care Patients in the ED - ID-PC-ED Presentation-2 (Baylor Health Care System)
- Identification of Palliative Care Patients in the ED - ID-PC-ED Flowchart (Baylor Health Care System)
- ID-PC-ED Screening Questions (Baylor Health Care System)
- ID-PC-ED Data Collection (Baylor Health Care System)
- ID-PC-ED A Social Workers Guide (Baylor Health Care System)
- PC-Social Work Flowchart (Baylor Health Care System)
- Team Based Approach to Palliative Care in the ED Presentation Handout (Baylor Health Care System)
- Integrating Hospice and Palliative Care Services in the ED (SAEM)
- Family Meeting Planner (VA VISN 3)
- Family Conference Log (VA Medical Center, Bronx, NY)
- Family Conference Toolkit (Fairview)