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Integration of palliative care across California public health systems: a resource guide for public hospital champions and specialists
Integration of palliative care across California public health systems: a resource guide for public hospital champions and specialists
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Author(s):
- Anderson, W.G., author
Schoen, M., author
Kerr, K., author
Kinderman, A., author
Parrish, M., author
Rabow, M., author
Myers, K., author - Contributor(s):
- California HealthCare Foundation, issuing body.
University of California, San Francisco, issuing body. - Publication:
- [Oakland, California] : California Health Care Foundation, 2019
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Hospitals, Public
Palliative Care
Delivery of Health Care, Integrated
Education, Medical
California
United States - Genre(s):
- Resource Guide
Technical Report - Abstract:
- Rationale. To provide the highest quality of care for all patients with serious illness, access to palliative care is imperative. But to meet the needs of this growing patient population, the palliative care model must shift from a specialist-driven model to one that supports the availability of both primary (or generalist) palliative care and specialty palliative care. Primary palliative care (basic palliative care skills all clinicians should have) is provided to patients by their primary care provider and other medical specialists. Specialty palliative care (skills for managing more complex and difficult cases) is provided by specialists for patients who need it. Integrating palliative care best practices and principles into the routine care of all patients with serious illness, requires skill building in the core domains of palliative care for all clinicians who care for patients with serious illness. It also requires quality improvement efforts that integrate palliative care processes into routine care across various specialties, care settings, and service lines. Palliative care specialists and champions are optimally positioned to lead efforts in both areas. Audience and Purpose: This guide was developed for palliative care champions and specialists who work in California Public Hospitals, to assist them in developing quality improvement projects to integrate palliative care into routine care across a range of service lines and patient populations. Palliative care champions and specialists from 10 of California's public hospitals, along with an expert panel, developed the guide. The guide includes: (1) Palliative care and advance care planning/serious illness communication resources. (2) Resources for frontline clinicians, patients, and families, that palliative care champions and specialists can use as part of palliative care education and improvement efforts. (3) Free resources, as well as those available for a fee or with a membership. (4) Train-the-trainer programs and implementation resources for systems that palliative care specialists and champions can use to support their program planning and development.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (10 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101767957 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101767957