Quality indicators for palliative care services: Mixed-method study testing for face validity, feasibility, discriminative power and usefulness

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 71-82

  Leemans, Kathleen ^a   Deliens, Luc ^a,b   Francke, Anneke L ^b,c   Vander Stichele, Robert ^a,d   Van Den Block, Lieve ^a   Cohen, Joachim ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Feasibility studies; Palliative care; Palliative medicine; Quality assessment; Quality improvement; Quality indicators; Terminal care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CAREGIVER; CONTENT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE POWER; FACE VALIDITY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TERMINAL CARE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; USEFULNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; STANDARDS; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; VALIDATION STUDY;

BELGIUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84919485859     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: 1477030X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216314546712     Document Type: Article

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