Palliative carecrossroadsThe Australian draft National Palliative Care Strategy foreshadows an approach aimed at strengthening specialist palliative care services, and developing people with special interest in palliative care. It pays less attention to building up the skills of the health workforce with a...
It is a voluntary, quality initiative which aims to assist palliative care services to measure the standard and quality of care which is a stated goal of the National Palliative Care Strategy.The development of the PCOC dataset has evolved after broad consultation with services and representatives ...
Within health, primary care was stressed as the most effective investment to improve the health status of the population. In 1993, the World Bank’s World Development Report adopted the Health for All strategy and promoted the view that health is an important investment sector for general ...
In this paper I will describe some of the sentinel events in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy and strategy during 2003 and the early par... IP Anderson - 《Australia & New Zealand Health Policy》 被引量: 29发表: 2004年 The National Health and Medical Research Council Road...
However, as previously discussed, the NESARC sampled from households and group quarters (eg, shelters and group homes), a strategy designed to increase the representation of individuals with drug use disorders in the sample. Based on these considerations of potential underreporting and ...
摘要原文 Admission to an acute hospital can be distressing and disorientating for a person with dementia, and is associated with decline in cognitive and functional ability. The objective of this audit was to assess the quality of dementia care in acute hospitals in the Republic of Ireland.Across...
Recognizing the role of general practitioners in cancer care has led to the development of an oncology curriculum in several high-income countries (HICs), including Canada [10], European countries [11], and Australia [12]. As part of the course provided by the European School of Oncology (...
“This pivotal strategy is a significant advancement in Bermuda’s healthcare landscape. It highlights the substantial challenge of cancer, which accounts for roughly one-third of all deaths annually on the island,” a spokesperson said. Dr Chris Fosker, Medical Director and Clinical Oncologist at...
The search strategy was limited to English lit- erature and consisted of various search terms that re- ferred to subject-specific keywords describing palliative care (combined using "or"), as well as ("and") the assess- ment of care using QIs (combined using "or"). Synonyms and medical...
Some felt that more of a nationwide recruitment strategy and advertisement scheme would be beneficial, encouraging regions to incorporate the programme into the patient’s care pathway. Sharing these lessons of implementation will hopefully improve implementation consistency across the nation, increase the ...