June 9, 2008
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Program Result
The West Virginia Initiative to Improve End-of-Life Care encouraged a process of policy change to aid physicians in treating patients at the end of their lives according to patients' wishes and to help patients to make those wishes clear.
May 1, 2007
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Program Result
Researchers at Brown Medical School identified, recorded and disseminated collaborative solutions (best practices) for end-of-life care in nursing homes with hospice services.
April 1, 1998
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Program Result
Researchers at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation for Health Care, Research and Education, Palo Alto, Calif., carried out a critical review and evaluation of the literature on high-cost illness published between 1982 and 1992.
December 1, 1998
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Program Result
The National Hospice Organization, Arlington, Va., held a teleconference in 1997 that provided a "Train the Trainers" forum designed to introduce physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals to End-of-Life issues through an educational kit, "Care Beyond Cure: Physician Education in End-of-Life Care."
December 1, 1998
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Program Result
In 1997, the Colorado Collaboration on End-of-Life Care (CCELC), a consortium of public and private groups, sponsored a conference with the goal of developing a replicable model of hospice/palliative care that can be used by an integrated delivery system to optimize appropriate interdisciplinary and holistic End-of-Life care.
October 1, 1998
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Program Result
George Washington University's Center to Improve Care of the Dying convened a panel of 31 experts to review current knowledge about measuring quality of care at the end of life and develop a consensus on a draft toolkit of measurement.
May 25, 2012
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Program Result
More and more hospitals are adopting palliative care programs through the work of the Center to Advance Palliative care, which also has led to the National Quality Forum's consensus practices and the Joint Commission's Advanced Certification Program.
March 1, 2004
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Program Result
From 2000 to 2002, Laguna Research Associates, San Francisco, conducted a feasibility study to determine whether hospitals had sufficient data on their palliative care programs to warrant a full study of the costs and financing of hospital-based palliative care.
August 1, 2004
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Program Result
The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Madison, Wis., in partnership with Tellens, a documentary and film production company in Evanston, Ill., conducted research for a documentary video on Dame Cicely Saunders of Great Britain, founder of the modern hospice/palliative care movement.
June 1, 2000
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Program Result
Starting in 1997, the Hospice Federation of Massachusetts developed and disseminated a model for conducting a statewide public awareness campaign for hospice services.
