An Interdisciplinary Approach to Improving Palliative Care:  A Quality Improvement Initiative

dc.contributor.author	Peyerk, Michele A
dc.date.accessioned	2022-01-06T15:59:22Z
dc.date.available	2022-01-06T15:59:22Z
dc.date.issued	2022-01-06
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10429/2262
dc.description.abstract	Discussions about end-of-life care are challenging conversations that health care professionals and their patients must navigate together. Through earlier concordance of goals, interventions to improve quality of life and symptom management can be initiated. A quality improvement initiative, using an interdisciplinary team approach, identified the effectiveness of a palliative care program with the aim of in identification of barriers which impacted goals of care conversations and referral generation. Success in referral generation was realized using a Palliative Care screening tool and workflow process.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	palliative care and care coordination, palliative care screening tool, patient empowerment, communication and chronic illness	en_US
dc.title	An Interdisciplinary Approach to Improving Palliative Care: A Quality Improvement Initiative	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US