9 results match your criteria: "Duke Cancer Institute and Duke Fuqua School of Business[Affiliation]"
Specialty Palliative Care in COVID-19: Early Experiences from the Palliative Care Quality Collaborative.
J Palliat Med
November 2021
Division of Palliative Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred unprecedented need for specialty palliative care. The Palliative Care Quality Collaborative (PCQC) provides unique infrastructure for rapid data collection and analysis. To capture and describe real-time, real-world experiences of specialty palliative care professionals caring for patients with COVID-19 through a rapid reporting tool and registry.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPerceptions of Facilitators and Barriers to Measuring and Improving Quality in Palliative Care Programs.
Am J Hosp Palliat Care
December 2020
1466Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Objective: To examine perceptions of facilitators and barriers to quality measurement and improvement in palliative care programs and differences by professional and leadership roles.
Methods: We surveyed team members in diverse US and Canadian palliative care programs using a validated survey addressing teamwork and communication and constructs for educational support and training, leadership, infrastructure, and prioritization for quality measurement and improvement. We defined key facilitators as constructs rated ≥4 (agree) and key barriers as those ≤3 (disagree) on 1 to 5 scales.
Promoting Oncologist Well-Being to Foster Delivery of Ethical, High-Quality Cancer Care: Priorities for 2020 and Beyond.
JCO Oncol Pract
April 2020
The University of Chicago Medicine, Department of Medicine, Section of Hematology/Oncology, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, Cancer Research Center, Supportive Oncology Program, Chicago, IL.
Identifying Palliative Care Champions to Promote High-Quality Care to Those with Serious Illness.
J Am Geriatr Soc
May 2019
University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
Leading medical authorities advocate for routine integration of palliative care for all major causes of death in the United States. With rapid growth and acceptance, the field of palliative care is tasked with addressing a compelling question of its time: "Who will deliver timely, evidence-based palliative care to all who should benefit?" The current number of palliative care specialists will not suffice to meet the needs of persons with serious illness. In 2010, initial estimates quantified the shortage at 6000 to 18 000 additional palliative care physicians needed to fully staff existing programs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEvaluation of the Measuring and Improving Quality in Palliative Care Survey.
J Oncol Pract
December 2018
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH; Duke Cancer Institute and Duke Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, NC; Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Health System, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles; Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA; Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care, Sinai Health System; University of Toronto; and Institute for Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Purpose: To evaluate the reliability, content validity, and variation among sites of a survey to assess facilitators and barriers to quality measurement and improvement in palliative care programs.
Methods: We surveyed a sample of diverse US and Canadian palliative care programs and conducted postcompletion discussion groups. The survey included constructs addressing educational support and training, communication, teamwork, leadership, and prioritization for quality measurement and improvement.
Supportive Care in Lung Cancer: Improving Value in the Era of Modern Therapies.
Am Soc Clin Oncol Educ Book
May 2018
From the Departments of Radiation Oncology and Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA Center for East West Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; Duke Cancer Institute and Duke Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, NC.
Driven by a discipline-wide imperative to maximize patient centeredness and value, supportive care services have experienced remarkable growth and acceptance in oncology care. Two such services with a growing evidence base and examples of routine integration into usual oncology care are palliative care and integrative medicine. Both focus on the patient experience with cancer during and after cancer-directed treatments occur, from diagnosis through survivorship or end-of-life care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Palliative Care Specialists Series: Equipping the Field for Upstream Care.
J Palliat Med
February 2018
3 Duke Cancer Institute and Duke Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
Redesigning Oncology Care Delivery: Early Wins, Lessons Learned, and a Roadmap.
Med Care
October 2017
Duke Cancer Institute and Duke Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, NC.