A primary care–based patient centric palliative care model

Patient-centric care management.

OBJECTIVE To review managed care's current cost management trends and the consumerism movement; to elucidate the pros and cons of key issues; and to describe the philosophy of focusing on the patient, also called patient-centric care, while improving the patient's care through value-based purchasing and plan design. SUMMARY Managed care is sometimes practiced using a silo approach with little...

Patient Issues: Demystifiying Palliative Care

Promoting palliative care in the community: production of the primary palliative care toolkit by the European Association of Palliative Care Taskforce in primary palliative care.

BACKGROUND A multidisciplinary European Association of Palliative Care Taskforce was established to scope the extent of and learn what facilitates and hinders the development of palliative care in the community across Europe. AIM To document the barriers and facilitators for palliative care in the community and to produce a resource toolkit that palliative care specialists, primary care healt...

Dignity-conserving care--a new model for palliative care: helping the patient feel valued.

The basic tenets of palliative care may be summarized as the goal of helping patients to die with dignity. The term "dignity" provides an overarching framework that may guide the physician, patient, and family in defining the objectives and therapeutic considerations fundamental to end-of-life care. Dignity-conserving care is care that may conserve or bolster the dignity of dying patients. Usin...

Developing the Cambridge palliative audit schedule (CAMPAS): a palliative care audit for primary health care teams.

BACKGROUND Problems with the provision of palliative care have been reported. Audit is one means of improving care. Earlier audits of primary care palliative care have been initiated by general practitioners (GPs) and are predominantly retrospective record reviews. Widely applicable methods for the audit of primary care palliative care do not exist. AIM To develop relevant palliative care sta...