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Creation of Minimum Standard Tool for Palliative Care in India and Self-evaluation of Palliative Care Programs Using It

BACKGROUND: It is important to ensure that minimum standards for palliative care based on available resources are clearly defined and achieved. AIMS: (1) Creation of minimum National Standards for Palliative Care for India. (2) Development of a tool for self-evaluation of palliative care organizatio...

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Autores principales: Rajagopal, MR, Joad, Anjum Khan, Muckaden, Maryann, George, Reena, Gupta, Harmala, Leng, Mhoira EF, Palat, Gayatri, Patel, Firuza, Raghavan, Biju, Reddy, Suresh K, Sunilkumar, MM, Tiruvadanan, Mallika, Connor, Stephen R
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4154167/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25191007
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1075.138395
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author Rajagopal, MR
Joad, Anjum Khan
Muckaden, Maryann
George, Reena
Gupta, Harmala
Leng, Mhoira EF
Palat, Gayatri
Patel, Firuza
Raghavan, Biju
Reddy, Suresh K
Sunilkumar, MM
Tiruvadanan, Mallika
Connor, Stephen R
author_facet Rajagopal, MR
Joad, Anjum Khan
Muckaden, Maryann
George, Reena
Gupta, Harmala
Leng, Mhoira EF
Palat, Gayatri
Patel, Firuza
Raghavan, Biju
Reddy, Suresh K
Sunilkumar, MM
Tiruvadanan, Mallika
Connor, Stephen R
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description BACKGROUND: It is important to ensure that minimum standards for palliative care based on available resources are clearly defined and achieved. AIMS: (1) Creation of minimum National Standards for Palliative Care for India. (2) Development of a tool for self-evaluation of palliative care organizations. (3) Evaluation of the tool in India. In 2006, Pallium India assembled a working group at the national level to develop minimum standards. The standards were to be evaluated by palliative care services in the country. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The working group prepared a “standards” document, which had two parts – the first composed of eight “essential” components and the second, 22 “desirable” components. The working group sent the document to 86 hospice and palliative care providers nationwide, requesting them to self-evaluate their palliative care services based on the standards document, on a modified Likert scale. RESULTS: Forty-nine (57%) palliative care organizations responded, and their self-evaluation of services based on the standards tool was analyzed. The majority of the palliative care providers met most of the standards identified as essential by the working group. A variable percentage of organizations had satisfied the desirable components of the standards. CONCLUSIONS: We demonstrated that the “standards tool” could be applied effectively in practice for self-evaluation of quality of palliative care services.
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spelling pubmed-41541672014-09-04 Creation of Minimum Standard Tool for Palliative Care in India and Self-evaluation of Palliative Care Programs Using It Rajagopal, MR Joad, Anjum Khan Muckaden, Maryann George, Reena Gupta, Harmala Leng, Mhoira EF Palat, Gayatri Patel, Firuza Raghavan, Biju Reddy, Suresh K Sunilkumar, MM Tiruvadanan, Mallika Connor, Stephen R Indian J Palliat Care Original Article BACKGROUND: It is important to ensure that minimum standards for palliative care based on available resources are clearly defined and achieved. AIMS: (1) Creation of minimum National Standards for Palliative Care for India. (2) Development of a tool for self-evaluation of palliative care organizations. (3) Evaluation of the tool in India. In 2006, Pallium India assembled a working group at the national level to develop minimum standards. The standards were to be evaluated by palliative care services in the country. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The working group prepared a “standards” document, which had two parts – the first composed of eight “essential” components and the second, 22 “desirable” components. The working group sent the document to 86 hospice and palliative care providers nationwide, requesting them to self-evaluate their palliative care services based on the standards document, on a modified Likert scale. RESULTS: Forty-nine (57%) palliative care organizations responded, and their self-evaluation of services based on the standards tool was analyzed. The majority of the palliative care providers met most of the standards identified as essential by the working group. A variable percentage of organizations had satisfied the desirable components of the standards. CONCLUSIONS: We demonstrated that the “standards tool” could be applied effectively in practice for self-evaluation of quality of palliative care services. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4154167/ /pubmed/25191007 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1075.138395 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Palliative Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Rajagopal, MR
Joad, Anjum Khan
Muckaden, Maryann
George, Reena
Gupta, Harmala
Leng, Mhoira EF
Palat, Gayatri
Patel, Firuza
Raghavan, Biju
Reddy, Suresh K
Sunilkumar, MM
Tiruvadanan, Mallika
Connor, Stephen R
Creation of Minimum Standard Tool for Palliative Care in India and Self-evaluation of Palliative Care Programs Using It
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title_full Creation of Minimum Standard Tool for Palliative Care in India and Self-evaluation of Palliative Care Programs Using It
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title_full_unstemmed Creation of Minimum Standard Tool for Palliative Care in India and Self-evaluation of Palliative Care Programs Using It
title_short Creation of Minimum Standard Tool for Palliative Care in India and Self-evaluation of Palliative Care Programs Using It
title_sort creation of minimum standard tool for palliative care in india and self-evaluation of palliative care programs using it
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4154167/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25191007
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1075.138395
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