Feasibility Testing of the Quality-monitoring Tool, Qdact, for the Palliative Care Research Cooperative

Completed

Conditions studied: Palliative Care

In brief

Few formal mechanisms for collecting, analyzing, and reporting data on quality in palliative care exist. Such infrastructure is needed to understand current clinical practices, inform quality improvement projects, and research which links adherence to specific quality measures and improved patient-centered outcomes. This infrastructure, if proven feasible, can then become integrated into usual palliative care delivery across the PCRC. Then, palliative care can conduct the same types of collaborative quality improvement activities, based on data collected at point of care, as other medical disciplines like general surgery and cardiology.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02411305

Run by

Duke University

People needed

40

Starts

2015-02-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-02-04

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Palliative care clinicians employed by Palliative Care Research Cooperative sites.

You may not qualify if…

• None

Where it is running

• UCSF — San Francisco, California, United States
• University of Colorado — Aurora, Colorado, United States
• University of North Carolina — Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
• Duke University Medical Center — Durham, North Carolina, United States
• Four Seasons Compassion for Life — Flat Rock, North Carolina, United States

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