Increasing Awareness of Palliative Medicine With the Emergency Department: A Quality Improvement Project
| Autor: | Phyllis Macchio, Alan Kaell, Greg Haggerty, Wardah Khan, Carolina De Elia, Lindsay Perigini |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
Quality management
business.industry Palliative Care 030208 emergency & critical care medicine General Medicine Treatment team Emergency department medicine.disease Quality Improvement 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Hospice Care medicine Emergency Medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Medical emergency business Emergency Service Hospital Palliative Medicine |
| Zdroj: | The American journal of hospicepalliative care. 39(2) |
| ISSN: | 1938-2715 |
| Popis: | Palliative medicine can be essential in helping to align patients’ goals of care with their treatment team. Referrals for palliative medicine are more advantageous when initiated in the emergency department as this is the first point of contact for seriously ill patients being admitted to the hospital. This paper highlights a quality improvement project initiated to address knowledge gaps in palliative medicine with emergency department (ED) staff and to increase referrals for palliative medicine from the ED. The palliative medicine staff held an in-service training with the ED staff which focused on defining palliative medicine and the importance of early consults when the patient presents in the ED. Palliative medicine staff also highlighted the differences between palliative medicine and hospice care, when and how to initiate a consult for palliative medicine, as well as how to contact the palliative medicine division. The results showed that after this educational intervention the number of palliative medicine consults increased three-fold. Before the educational intervention, monthly averages for palliative medicine were 6 and after rose to 18.9 per month. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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