Palliative care team: The first year audit in Japan

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 458-465

  Morita, Tatsuya ^a,b   Fujimoto, Koji ^a   Tei, Yo ^a  

^a Seirei Mikatabara Hospital   (Japan)

^b Seirei Mikatabara Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Audit; Neoplasms; Palliative care team; Palliative care unit

Indexed keywords

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; STEROID;

ABDOMINAL SWELLING; ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CONSTIPATION; DELIRIUM; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; SOMNOLENCE; SPUTUM; SYMPTOM; TEAMWORK; VOMITING; XEROSTOMIA;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PAIN; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 19444376389     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2004.08.013     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. World Health Organization National cancer control programmes Policies and managerial guidelines 2nd ed. 2002 WHO Geneva
2. I.J. Higginson, I. Finlay, and D.M. Goodwin Do hospital-based palliative teams improve care for patients or families at the end of life? J Pain Symptom Manage 23 2002 96 106
3. G.W. Hanks, M. Robbins, and D. Sharp The impact study: a randomized controlled trial to evaluate a hospital palliative care team Br J Cancer 87 2002 733 739
4. M.W. Rabow, S.L. Dibble, S.Z. Pantilat, and S.J. McPhee The comprehensive care team. A controlled trial of outpatient palliative medicine consultation Arch Intern Med 164 2004 83 91
5. L.G. Jacobs, K. Bonuck, and W. Burton Can "palliative care reports" improve end-of-life care for hospitalized patients? J Pain Symptom Manage 24 2002 299 311
6. R. McQuillan, I. Finlay, and C. Branch Improving analgesic prescribing in a general teaching hospital J Pain Symptom Manage 11 1996 172 180
7. R. McQuillan, I. Finlay, and D. Roberts The provision of a palliative care service in a teaching hospital and subsequent evaluation of that service Palliat Med 10 1996 231 239
8. E. Bruera, C. Brenneis, M. Michaud, and R.N. MacDonald Influence of the pain and symptom control team (PSCT) on the patterns of treatment of pain and other symptoms in a cancer center J Pain Symptom Manage 4 1989 112 116
9. J.L. Abrahm, J. Callahan, K. Rossetti, and L. Pierre The impact of a hospice consultation team on the care of veterans with advanced cancer J Pain Symptom Manage 12 1996 23 31
10. J.E. Ellershaw, S.J. Peat, and L.C. Boys Assessing the effectiveness of a hospital palliative care team Palliat Med 9 1995 145 152
11. A. Kuin, A.M. Courtens, and L. Deliens Palliative care consultation in The Netherlands: a nationwide evaluation study J Pain Symptom Manage 27 2004 53 60
12. J. Homsi, D. Walsh, and K.A. Nelson The impact of a palliative medicine consultation service in medical oncology Support Care Cancer 10 2002 337 342
13. P.L. Manfredi, S. Morrison, and J. Morris Palliative care consultations: how do they impact the care of hospitalized patients? J Pain Symptom Manage 20 2000 166 173
14. H. Carter, E. McKinlay, and I. Scott Impact of a hospital palliative care service: perspective of the hospital staff J Palliat Care 18 2002 160 167
15. J.A. Low, R.K. Liu, R. Strutt, and R. Chye Specialist community palliative care services: a survey of general practitioners' experience in eastern Sydney Support Care Cancer 9 2001 474 476
16. B. Jack, V. Hillier, A. Williams, and J. Oldham Hospital-based palliative care teams improve the insight of cancer patients into their disease Palliat Med 18 2004 46 52
17. B. Axelsson, and S.B. Christensen Evaluation of a hospital-based palliative support service with particular regard to financial outcome measures Palliat Med 12 1998 41 49
18. T. Morita, S. Chihara, and T. Kashiwagi Family satisfaction with inpatient palliative care in Japan Palliat Med 16 2002 185 193
19. E. Maeyama, M. Kawa, and M. Miyashita Multiprofessional team approach in palliative care units in Japan Support Care Cancer 11 2003 509 515
20. E. Ida, M. Miyachi, and M. Uemura Current status of hospice cancer deaths both in-unit and at home (1995-2000), and prospects of home care services in Japan Palliat Med 16 2002 179 184
21. M.G. Carson, M.I. Fitch, and M.L. Vachon Measuring patient outcomes in palliative care: a reliability and validity study of the support team assessment schedule Palliat Med 14 2000 25 36
22. M. Miyashita, T. Sasahara, M. Kawa, and Y. Shima Introduction of Japanese version STAS (Support Team Assessment Schedule) and clinical audit in palliative care [in Japanese] Jap J Hospice Palliat Care 13 2003 109 114
23. N. Akizuki, T. Akechi, and T. Nakanishi Development of a brief screening interview for adjustment disorders and major depression in patients with cancer Cancer 97 2003 2605 2613
24. W. Breitbart, B. Rosenfeld, and A. Roth The Memorial Delirium Assessment Scale J Pain Symptom Manage 13 1997 128 137
25. Y. Matsuoka, Y. Miyake, and H. Arakaki Clinical utility and validation of the Japanese version of the Memorial Delirium Assessment Scale in a psychogeriatric inpatient setting Gen Hosp Psychiatry 23 2001 36 40
26. M. Maltoni, O. Nanni, and M. Pirovano Successful validation of the palliative prognostic score in terminally ill cancer patients J Pain Symptom Manage 17 1999 240 247
27. T. Morita, J. Tsunoda, S. Inoue, and S. Chihara The palliative prognostic index: a scoring system for survival prediction of terminally ill cancer patients Support Care Cancer 7 1999 128 133