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José Pereira1, Kathy Greene2, Lisa Sullivan3
1Gilchrist professor of palliative medicine at Queen's University and has appointments as professor in the Departments of Family Medicine at the Universities of Ottawa and McMaster. He is director of research at the College of Family Physicians of Canada. He co-led this project in his previous role as Department Head of Palliative Medicine at Bruyère Continuing Care, Ottawa.
Abstract:
Ottawa has a 31-bed palliative care unit (PCU) and two residential adult hospices (total 19 beds). In 2013, we initiated a project to improve the referral and triage processes to these beds. Previously, there were two separate paper-based systems with duplication, inefficiencies, delays and inappropriate patient placements. The multipronged approach included clarifying the respective roles of the PCU and hospices, creating a single referral and triage office and developing an e-platform. We leveraged technology that was available in the public-funded system. This paper describes the development processes, lessons learned, and the final system, referred to as System to Manage Access, Referrals and Triage (SMART).
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