Palliative Care Policy and Research

Follow the links below to find information on palliative care policy, government programs and research.

Reviewed December 2011

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Title:   CareSearch, palliative care knowledge network
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   CareSearch is a website providing palliative care information, evidence and resources. It is designed for patients and carers and for health professionals providing care for people with a terminal illness. All materials are reviewed for quality and relevance.
Date:   Jan 2012
Title:   Palliative Care PubMed searches
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   Follow these links to run real-time PubMed searches. They give you a broad entry point into the relevant English, palliative care related literature.
Date:   Sep 2011
Title:   PaCCSC
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   The Palliative Care Clinical Studies Collaborative (PaCCSC) is a research group looking at improving the quality of care for patients through access, awareness and quality use of palliative care medicines in the community through clinical studies.
Date:   Jun 2011
Title:   The National Palliative Care Strategy - Supporting Australians to Live Well at the End of Life
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The National Palliative Care Strategy guides palliative care initiatives and services.
Date:   Nov 2010
Title:   Palliative Care
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   What is meant by the term palliative care, when and where it is provided and by whom.
Date:   Oct 2010
Title:   Service issues
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   More evidence is needed about how supportive care should be integrated throughout the course of treatment of heart failure patients, how to select those interventions which will most benefit specific patients, and about how best to understand and communicate prognosis so that patients' wishes can be integrated into goals of care
Date:   Oct 2010
Title:   Research
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   Research is a vital component of current and future nursing practice. All nurses, regardless of their role or workplace will encounter research throughout their career.
Date:   Aug 2010
Title:   Policy quality standards
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   Nurses need to be aware of issues relating to quality and standards as well as palliative care policy considerations.
Date:   Aug 2010
Title:   Research
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   Palliative care research is helping to identify best practice for the care of the dying. Palliative care patients have long been considered a vulnerable population, and for many years it was considered inappropriate to conduct research with those at the end of life.
Date:   Aug 2010
Title:   Audit
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   Clinical audit is a strategy to improve health care services. Clinical audit selects areas for improvement in services and involves the use of appropriate, valid methods to answer the questions.
Date:   Jul 2010
Title:   National palliative care performance indicators: results of the 2008 performance indicator data collection
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW)
Description:   National palliative care performance indicators: results of the 2008 performance indicator data collection presents the findings of the fourth national collection of performance indicator data from Australia's palliative care sector. The information collected provides information on the extent to which palliative care agencies have met the four national performance indicators that were developed based on the goals and objectives of the National Palliative Care Strategy. The report also presents information on changes to performance (as measured by these performance indicators) that have occurred between the 2008 survey and previous surveys.
Date:   Jul 2010
Title:   National Palliative Care Program
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   The National Palliative Care Program is funded by the Australian Government to improve access to, and quality of, palliative care services in Australia.
Date:   Jun 2010
Title:   National palliative care performance indicators: results of the 2007 performance indicator data collection
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   This report presents the findings of the 2007 national collection of performance indicator data from Australia's palliative care sector, and comparisons with the results of previous collections in 2005 and 2006. Some characteristics of palliative care agencies are also described.
Date:   Jun 2008
Title:   Caring communities program
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   The Caring Communities Program aims to improve the quality of palliative care provided in local communities.
Date:   May 2008
Title:   Conducting research in palliative care
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   Research evidence can inform direct patient care, its delivery and organisation. As a multidisciplinary field, there are many different types of questions that need to be investigated in palliative care.
Date:   May 2008
Title:   About evidence
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   Palliative care is a rapidly evolving, multidisciplinary field of practice. The types of evidence and knowledge produced within palliative care are accordingly varied and encompass many different types of research methodologies.
Date:   May 2008
Title:   Research Studies Register
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   CareSearch has developed this database as a register of Australian research projects and studies in palliative care. The register provides a means of sharing information, developing linkages, preventing duplication and promoting awareness of current research activities.
Date:   May 2007
Title:   National palliative care performance indicators
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   This report presents the findings of the first national collection of performance indicator data from Australia's palliative care sector. The information collected was designed to support the calculation of four national performance indicators.
Date:   Aug 2006

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