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View article: Association of Hospice Profit Status With Family Caregivers’ Reported Care Experiences
Association of Hospice Profit Status With Family Caregivers’ Reported Care Experiences Open
Importance Expansive growth in the US hospice market has been driven almost exclusively by an increase in for-profit hospices. Prior research found that, in contrast to not-for-profit hospices, for-profit hospices focus on delivering care …
View article: Adding telephone follow‐up can improve representativeness of surveys of seriously ill people
Adding telephone follow‐up can improve representativeness of surveys of seriously ill people Open
A growing population of seriously ill people in the United States receives care from community-based serious illness programs.1 Surveys of patients' experiences with these programs can help identify areas for improvement and compare care q…
View article: Adjusting for Patient Characteristics to Compare Quality of Care Provided by Serious Illness Programs
Adjusting for Patient Characteristics to Compare Quality of Care Provided by Serious Illness Programs Open
Background: To compare serious illness programs (SIPs) using recently developed patient experience measures, adjustment must be made for patient characteristics not under control of the programs. Objectives: To develop a case-mix adjustmen…
View article: Reliable and Valid Survey-Based Measures to Assess Quality of Care in Home-Based Serious Illness Programs
Reliable and Valid Survey-Based Measures to Assess Quality of Care in Home-Based Serious Illness Programs Open
Background: There is a pressing need for standardized measures to assess the quality of home-based serious illness care. Currently, there are no validated quality measures that are specific to home-based serious illness programs (SIPs) and…
View article: Serious Illness Survey for Home-Based Programs
Serious Illness Survey for Home-Based Programs Open
RAND Corporation researchers developed and field-tested a survey to assess the experiences of individuals who receive care from programs that provide serious illness care to patients in their homes.
View article: MACRA Palliative Care Quality Measure Development—Testing Summary Report: Measure Name: Feeling Heard and Understood
MACRA Palliative Care Quality Measure Development—Testing Summary Report: Measure Name: Feeling Heard and Understood Open
Palliative care has expanded rapidly in the past 20 years, especially in the ambulatory (office) setting, and there is growing consensus regarding the need to systematically measure and incentivize high-quality care. The Centers for Medica…
View article: MACRA Palliative Care Quality Measure Development—Testing Summary Report: Measure Name: Receiving Desired Help for Pain
MACRA Palliative Care Quality Measure Development—Testing Summary Report: Measure Name: Receiving Desired Help for Pain Open
Palliative care has expanded rapidly in the past 20 years, especially in the ambulatory (office) setting, and there is growing consensus regarding the need to systematically measure and incentivize high-quality care. The Centers for Medica…