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Documenting the impact of hospice
1Touchstone Consulting, North Bay Village, FL, USA.
The Hospice Journal
|June 6, 2000
Summary
Documenting the value of hospice care is crucial. Recent efforts focus on outcomes measurement by individual providers to establish standards and showcase expertise in end-of-life care.
Area of Science:
- Palliative Care and Hospice Medicine
- Health Services Research
Background:
- Hospice care significantly impacts patients, families, healthcare, and society.
- A comprehensive evidence base documenting hospice care's value for stakeholders is lacking.
- Evaluating hospice care presents numerous challenges.
Purpose of the Study:
- To describe recent initiatives documenting the value of hospice care.
- To highlight the focus on outcomes measurement by individual providers.
- To underscore the need for standardized measurement and benchmarking.
Main Methods:
- Focus on recent efforts in outcomes measurement by individual hospice providers.
- Development of reliable measurement tools for standardized data collection.
- Collection of data for benchmarking and comparison across hospices.
Main Results:
- Recent efforts concentrate on outcomes measurement at the provider level.
- Several groups are developing standardized measurement tools.
- Data collection for benchmarking is underway to compare hospice performance.
Conclusions:
- Measuring hospice care impact will establish standards for end-of-life care providers.
- This documentation will highlight hospice professionals' expertise.
- Hospices can become centers of excellence, adapting to future care delivery models.
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