Promoting patient centred palliative care through case conferencing

Australian Family Physician

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 961-964

  Shelby James, Tania M ^a,b   Currow, David C ^b   Phillips, Paddy A ^b   Williams, Helena ^c   Abernethy, Amy P ^a,b,d  

^a REPATRIATION GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Adelaide W Div of General Practice   (Australia)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CASE MANAGEMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 38449089810     PISSN: 03008495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Palliative Care Australia. Palliative care service provision in Australia: a planning guide. Deakin West, ACT: Palliative Care Australia, 2002.
2. Mitchell G, Cherry M, Kennedy R, et al. General practitioner, specialist providers case conferences in palliative care. Lessons learned from 56 case conferences. Aust Fam Physician 2005;34:389-92.
3. Street A, Blackford J. Communication issues for the interdisciplinary community palliative care team. J Clin Nurs 2001;10:643-50.
4. Goodwin DM, Higginson IJ, Edwards AG, et al. An evaluation of systematic reviews of palliative care services. J Palliat Care 2002;18:77-83.
5. Hearn J, Higginson IJ. Do specialist palliative care teams improve outcomes for cancer patients? A systematic literature review. Palliat Med 1998;12:317-32.
6. Rabow MW, Dibble SL, Pantilat SZ, McPhee SJ. The comprehensive care team: a controlled trial of outpatient palliative medicine consultation. Arch Intern Med 2004;164:83-91.
7. The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. Enhanced primary care-standards and guidelines for the Enhanced Primary Care Medicare Benefits Schedule items. Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia, 2000.
8. Wilkinson D, McElroy H, Beilby J, et al. Uptake of health assessments, care plans and case conferences by general practitioners through the Enhanced Primary Care program between November 1999 and October 2001. Aust Health Rev 2002;25:1-11.
9. Abernethy AP, Currow DC, Hunt R, et al. A pragmatic 2x2x2 factorial cluster randomised controlled trial of educational outreach visiting and case conferencing in palliative care-methodology of the Palliative Care Trial [ISRCTN 81117481]. Contemp Clin Trials 2006;27:83-100.
10. Abernethy A, Shelby-James T, Fazekas B, et al. The Australia modified Karnofsky Performance Status (AKPS) scale: a revised scale for contemporary palliative care clinical practice. BMC Pall Care 2005;4:7.
11. Eagar K. Defining an episode of care: a study of five case types. Aust Health Rev 1997;20:105-19.
12. Blakeman TM, Harris MF, Comino EJ, Zwar NA. Evaluating general practitioners' views about the implementation of the Enhanced Primary Care Medicare items. Med J Aust 2001;175:95-8.
13. Oldroyd J, Proudfoot J, Infante FA, et al. Providing healthcare for people with chronic illness: the views of Australian GPs. Med J Aust 2003;179:30-3.
14. Mitchell GK, Abernethy A. A comparison of methodologies from two longitudinal community based randomised controlled trials of similar interventions in palliative care: what worked and what didn't? J Pall Med 2005;8:1226-37.
15. King MA, Roberts MS. Multidisciplinary case conference reviews: improving outcomes for nursing home residents, carers and health professionals. Pharm World Sci 2001;23:41-5.
16. Lewis S, Bridge M, Roughton D, et al. Quality of life issues identified by palliative care clients using two tools. Contemp Nurse 2002;12:31-1.
17. Reid C. Partnering with physicians: a win-win strategy. Home Health Care Management & Practice 2000;12:1-8.
18. Chew M. Battling red tape (editorial). Med J Aust 2004;181:60.