Evaluation of hospital palliative care teams: Strengths and weaknesses of the before-after study design and strategies to improve it

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 23-28

  Simon, S ^a,b   Higginson, I J ^b  

^a Institute of Palliative Care   (Germany)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evaluation studies; Health service; Palliative care; Patient care team; Research design

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; EVALUATION RESEARCH; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SUPPORT GROUP; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREND STUDY; VALIDITY;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 58549112033     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216308098802     Document Type: Article

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