Background: The Palliative Care Problem Severity Score is a clinician-rated tool to assess problem severity in four palliative care domains (pain, other symptoms, psychological/spiritual, family/carer problems) using a 4-point categorical scale (absent, mild, moderate, severe).Masso, Malcolm...
Background: The Palliative Care Problem Severity Score is a clinician-rated tool to assess problem severity in four palliative care domains (pain, other symptoms, psychological/spiritual, family/carer problems) using a 4-point categorical scale (absent, mild, moderate, severe). @@@ Aim: To test...
The current PCOC data set (Version 2) was introduced in July 2007 following consultation with palliative care services and approval by PCOC's Scientific and Clinical Advisory Committee. The data set includes five clinical assessment tools: Phases of Care, Palliative Care Problem Severity Score (PC...
Table 1. Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of Hematologic and Solid Tumor Patients Referred for Palliative Care With a PPS score >0 Empty CellHematologic (N = 108)Solid (N = 1127)Total (N = 1235)P-value Age 0.11a N 99 1008 1107 Missing 9 119 128 Mean (SD) 66.6 (15.2) 64.8...
Older people with noncancer conditions are less likely to be referred to palliative care services due to the inherent uncertain disease trajectory and a lack of standardised referral criteria. For older adults with noncancer conditions where prognostic e
With ADRD-PC, persons with late-stage ADRD had more palliative care domains addressed in their treatment plan (Palliative Care Domain Index Score 7.6 vs 2.7, p < 0.001, range 0–10), with increased symptom management for dyspnea (77% vs 34%, p < 0.001), constipation (93% vs...
such as an unacceptable burden on 244 Table 6 Examples of measures for symptom improvement initiative Symptom/evaluation Pain assessment Measure Percent of 4-h nurse–patient care intervalsa in which pain was assessed and documentedb Pain management Proportion of assessmentsa in which pain score B3 ...
Consensus was defined a priori as ≥70% of answers scoring 5 (strongly agree) or 4 (agree), and the mean score >4 on the Likert scale. Phase 3 Based on the components reaching consensus in Phase 2, a definition was drafted and sent to the members of the expert group. In this final...
With ADRD-PC, persons with late-stage ADRD had more palliative care domains addressed in their treatment plan (Palliative Care Domain Index Score 7.6 vs 2.7, p < 0.001, range 0–10), with increased symptom management for dyspnea (77% vs 34%, p < 0.001), constipation (93% vs...
“, „overburdening of family” and a higher HOPE global sum score were also frequently associated with late referrals. In a previous study from our CCC, we examined needs and requests of cancer patients in the oncology outpatient clinic for palliative care using a patient reported outcome ...